What Can Be Said About God?"When I ask about the goal of Judaism, I mean is it not also Jewish to think of some realization of the reality or presence of God? As a very distinct experience which does occur?" I endeavored to reach toward a Jewish question. "I think the experience of God is a very distinct and concrete experience. Yes, it’s something you can sense that happens to you, and it’s even something you could attempt to talk about." He smiled. "Would you, please?" "Obviously, the more you talk about it, the less it becomes. Coming from a mystic tradition, you understand that kind of a concept. There is a whole stream of Jewish philosophy that says you can say nothing about God — because the minute you try to say something about God you categorize, constrain or confine God, and you’ve lost whatever it is you want to talk about. Jewish religious experience is not like talking about ‘X-ism.’ The minute you start talking about it, you don’t have the same thing anymore. |
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