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Step 7 of 7~8 min read
Reflection: Your Language and Your World
Reflect on whether your language constitutes or merely describes your world.
Prompts to consider
- Sefer Yetzirah claims that the 22 Hebrew letters are the structural elements of reality, that reality is, at its deepest level, linguistic. Modern physics claims that reality is mathematical at its deepest level. Are you more comfortable with mathematical structure or linguistic structure as the bedrock of reality? What does your preference reveal?
- Kabbalah holds that the Sefirot, Lovingkindness, Judgment, Beauty, Foundation, Kingdom, are the inner structure of both divine reality and the human soul. Spend a few minutes with each term: which do you feel most developed in yourself? Which most underdeveloped? Does thinking about your inner life in these terms change anything?
- The Kabbalistic tradition says the Torah contains infinite depths, every letter is inexhaustible. Is there a text in your own life, secular or sacred, that you find inexhaustible, that keeps yielding new meaning across returns? What is the structure of that inexhaustibility? Is it in the text, or in you, or in the relationship between you?
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