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Special to the Jewish News
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t is everyone's
challenge to choose
to live a life that has "maximum
real meaning," said Rabbi Dovid
Gottlieb at the Ohr Somayach
lunch-and-learn program on Sept. 23.
To illustrate, he gave this example:
"The Communist revolution had ideal-
ism and extraordinary leaders,
but it caused the masses to
suffer terribly. They ignored
the spiritual dimension of life,
and the movement ultimately
had no real meaning."
Rabbi Gottlieb, a native of
New York, is a lecturer,
author and instructor with
the Ohr Somayach yeshivah
in Jerusalem. He's a former
professor of mathematical
Gottlieb
logic at Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore.
At the lunch and learn at the Max M.
Fisher Federation Building in Bloomfield
Township, Rabbi Gottlieb said, "A mys-
tical dimension of ultimate reality under-
lies the world in which we live."
He compared this idea to a physicist
maintaining that a seemingly solid,
motionless table is actually 90 percent
empty space, filled with atomic particles
whizzing around. The fact that people
can't physically feel the particles makes
them no less real, he said. Likewise, he
said, people have to trust that there is a
spiritual reality that they may not be able
to perceive.
The rabbi implied that this spiritual
reality is something people certainly can
tap into.
He explained Creation as an ongoing
process in which all things have a poten-
tial to express holiness. People can give
things meaning by using them in a spiri-
tual context, elevating them to a status of
mitzvot (God's commandments), he said.
For example, wine can be guzzled by a
bum, or can be used for reciting IGdclush
on Shabbat.
Although people are challenged to
understand the mitzvot of the Torah, "if
we can't, that's no reason to
deprive ourselves of their ben-
efit," Rabbi Gottlieb said.
He used the analogy of a
computer that one operates
without understanding how
the inner mechanics of it actu-
ally work.
"A mitzvah is an action that
is appropriate to total reality
(both the physical and the
spiritual dimension)," he said.
"The Creator of the world
knows how mitzvot work to
realize the potentiality of the world.
Everything is created by God as a means
to connect to Him."
On this visit to Detroit, the
Orthodox rabbi addressed several audi-
ences in four days including 200
Partners in Torah participants at Yeshiva
Beth Yehudah in Southfield, as well as
Torah Team learning partners at Machon
L'Torah in Oak Park and couples at
Congregation -Keter Torah in West
Bloomfield.
He spoke also to students at the
Jewish Resource Center in Ann Arbor,
Yeshiva Beth Yehudah's Beth Jacob high
school in Oak Park, the Jewish Academy
of Metropolitan Detroit in West
Bloomfield and Yeshivas Darchei Torah's
high school in Southfield.
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