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Creation means seeing the universe as God’s work. Revelation means seeing Torah as God’s word. Redemption means seeing history as God’s deed and God’s call.
But within these broad parameters, we must each find our own understanding, guided by the Sages of the past, instructed by our teachers in the present, and finding our own route to the Divine presence.
Judaism is a matter of creed as well as deed. But we should allow people great leeway in how they understand the faith of our ancestors. Heresy-hunting is not our happiest activity.
Na’aseh ve-nishma, “We will do and we will understand,” - the two words we read towards the end of our parsha - means: we will do in the same way; we will understand in our own way. I believe that action unites us, leaving us space to find our own way to faith.
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