What Will You Sacrifice For Focus?
On The Tradeoff Between Mystery and Knowledge
The Torah instructs that one cannot take a mother bird along with her eggs, but must scare her away, first. The Zohar reads this commandment symbolically—the mother represents the origin of things, while the eggs represent that which is within our experiential and epistemological grasp. Here’s the text:
“So it is written: Do not take the mother along wit…
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