Guide of the Perplexed

“You should not think that these great secrets are fully and completely known to anyone among us. They are not. But sometimes truth flashes out to us so that we think that it is day, and then matter and habit in their various forms conceal it so that we find ourselves again in an obscure night, almost as we were at first. We are like someone in a very dark night over whom lightning flashes time and time again. Among us there is one for whom the lightning flashes time and time again, so that he is always, as it were, in unceasing light. Thus night appears to him as day…” — Moses Maimonides (1135-1204)

Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk,
For unto Thee have I lifted my soul.

Unto you, O men, I call,
And my voice is to the sons of men.

Incline thy ear, and hear the words of the wise,
And apply thy heart unto my knowledge.

Seven causes of contradiction

Nameless speakers in the din of Babel
Caterpillar and Butterfly
Contradictory parables
The king is dead, long live the king.
Zone of Proximal Development
Midrashim
Haggadah.

Perplexity is equivocal, derivative, amphibolous:
Burn the words that their light may guide you to
The lost pearls.

Her feet abide not in her house
And lieth in wait at every corner
And kissed him, and with impudent face she said unto him
This day have I paid my vows
Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee,
My bed, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt
With myrrh, aloes and cinnamon
Until the morning; let us solace ourselves with loves:
He is gone a long journey
He has taken with him, and will
Come home at the full moon

And when these gates are opened

And these places are entered into,

The souls will find rest therein,

The eyes will be delighted,

And the bodies will be eased

Of their toil and of their labour.