Here is the email conversation that Betsy refers to in this month’s From the Filmmakers about coherence and rising above philosophical agreement to reach a larger arena of non-personal agreement and mutual expansion. Cate's responses are in bold itallics.
To the editor:
Hi, I have recently had the chance to view the film "what the bleep". It has been making its pass through orthodox Jewish circles lately. I was amazed with the consistency it has with Chasidic/Kabalistic/Jewish concepts of the divine. Is this organization Jewish? It is precisely because of what you have explained that Jews refuse to accept a G-d in the flesh or a G-d impregnating a woman with himself. It is completely inaccurate/false/immature/Pagan to have such beliefs. This is also why G-d despises to have himself compared to any likeness in our physical reality.
-Yosef Katz
Hi Yosef -
No - What the BLEEP isn't a Jewish organization. It is a film company.
However I'm really interested in your point of view. Could you elucidate on what "precisely" we have explained that buttresses the Jewish belief that "G-d despises being compared to any likeness in our physical reality?"
Regards,
Cate Montana
To start with the 2nd commandment states (in normal modern English) "Do not recognize any other powers of nature before me. Do not make any molten or carved image of anything in the heavens above or the earth below including the seas. Do not prostrate or perform any rituals (worship) towards them because I who transcends time and space, your (singular, personally) G-d is a jealous G-d who exacts payment for this sin upon children for 3 to 4 generations on my enemies, and does kindness for thousands (of generations) to those who love me and guard my commandments" It goes without saying that G-d doesn't appreciate being compared to physical reality.
In the deeper secretive part of our tradition we have been informed by G-d through Moses our teacher that nothing exists except for G-d himself. There is nothing but G-d. Physical reality is not as real as it seems, it is only through its continual recreation every moment that keeps it existing. Nothing is old, even the laws of physics must be continually recreated. The reason why matter behaves like a wave is because it is G-d's "speech" which is constantly being spoken that "forms" matter. -Yosef Next > 1 2 3 4
