(When the Goyim came into the Beis Hamikdosh and saw the Keruvim, they dragged them outside and showed everybody “what the Jews really worship”. Yirmiyah Hanavie didn’t bother answering them, because the answer is not as simple as the question. Instead he cried)
(Once R. Zalman Moshe sat near R. Moshe Gurary by a farbrengen and demanded of him, “You are a ‘scholar.’ Tell me, what is the ‘atmzus’ that we hear about so much in chassidus?”
R. Moshe tried to evade the question, “What can one possibly say about atzmus?”
But R. Zalman Moshe was unrelenting, and said, you must tell us, what is atzmus?”
Finally, R. Moshe opened his mouth and tried to explain something. But, at that moment, R. Zalman Moshe immediately turned to him again and gave a playful slap. He then said, the mere fact that it is possible to say something – that’s already not atzmus)
When I said atzmus I obviously don’t mean you will understand Atzmus for that is something that no person can understand
But what I do mean is that there are certain things that if you look at it with a regular eye doesn’t seem to make sense
for example:
1. based on the way Hashem created this world we are limited and Hashem is unlimited so how can limited affect the unlimited wouldnt that make us unlimited (obviously on hashems end that is not a question because hashem is unlimited, the question is on our end how do we see it (this part I don’t feel is the correct way to ask the question but I hope u get what I’m trying to say))
2. About Moshe it says חציו ומעלה אלוקים חציו ומטה איש
3. How can Moshe say ונתתי מטר ארצכם בעתו”
4. how can the Zohar say. “מאן פני האדון הוי’, דא רשב”י How can one say such a thing about a human
Before we continue we need to answer these questions – there has to be an answer (there are others but we will start with this)