Post Echad

"Shema Yisrael, Hashem Elokeinu, Hashem Echad."

The more and more I study Torah, the more and more this is an apparent and foundational principle, upon which all is -- nothing can do without this.

"G-d and His Torah are one."
Creation is of it. ["one man with one heart."]
Revelation is of it. ["one man with one heart."]
Redemption is of it. ["one man with one heart."]

Though the sake of Rashi's quote may be evident with Matan Torah, and Israel's encampment, and Geulah, through teshuvah, mitzvot & Tikkun Olam and their effects with the body of Adam Kadmon, one might wonder how Maase Bereishit and "one man with one heart" similarly relate, however.
In Torah, Bereishit is in the beginning, and the ends is Israel. This is the heart of the matter: LeV. 32. The number of sephirot and otiot. The number of teeth in a mouth. Lev is in the mouth, do we share it or tear it and eat it? Is there unity, or annihilation? Bereishit stems from the Beit, which lies in the place of His peh. And His words are united with His heart. Beit are black words on white fire, the peh, the nistar that becomes nigleh. "Hashem, Torah, and Israel are one." In respect to the Creator, we are as one creature. And He calls out to us. VayiQRA. For sacrifice. QoRBan. Call and response. A&B. It calls for giving up at least our material, vegetative, and animal layers. Maybe even our human. To be a living being. A speaking spirit. Breathed from the depths. He desires a dwelling place below, and Bereishit is the consequence. If taking out of Egypt is greater than creation, it is also the case that there is a Geulah greater than that which is from Mitzrayim. Matan Torah was permitted by the unity of Israel. Geulah/Tikkun Olam requires unity of all the nations. With all animals. And vegetation. Minerals. There is an order to the importance of mitzvot. Tzedakah is for Geulah. It is greater to unburden a pack animal, than to load another. Unless it is one's enemies to be loading. But the matter now is, the rags which Moshiach binds himself is of the chomer, and though moshiach is our friend, this Galut burdens even our enemies, whom remain captive to the situation.

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Don't get chukkim yet. Never will, from what I'm told.
"Eleh v'eleh - these and these." Of course, the unreasonable and the reasonable, the hidden and the revealed (and further revealed through redemption). Makes sense. In a nonsensical kind of way - kinda non-dual - which Abrahamic follower was it that told me Taoism is aberrant?

And such it is as I stand now, as a goy on one foot, studying towards whichever engagement with Torah shall be for me.