Dov Baer Of Mezritch (?-1772)

I choose to write on Dov Baer of Mezritch because his writing had a lot of profound meaning. I have to admit that when I first read the passage I thought that he meant that we should have blind faith. Meaning that we should not interpret the Bible or any spiritual sayings, words, stories, etc. in our own words. The second time I read it I looked at it in a different way. I did not just pay closer attention to what Dov Baer said in one sentence, “The moment you begin to hear what you yourself are saying, you must stop” but what he was saying throughout the whole passage. This is when I understood that he was not saying do not interpret the words, he was saying to not take credit for Gods work. Dov Baer began this passage by saying “When you gaze at an object, you bring blessing to it.” I think this is a very wise and true thing to say. If we just ignored something or did not realize that it was there it would not matter to us, we would be able to continue living without knowing its existences. But if we give that object or whatever it is importance we are blessing it. I especially enjoyed the last paragraph that Dov Baer wrote. In this paragraph he talked about “The creation of heaven and earth is the unfolding of something out of nothing, the descent from above to below…They change the something back into the nothing.” To me this means that those who are truly meditating on God and the spiritual meaning know that material things are nothing. Yes God has giving us a wonderful home, Earth, but Earth was not always here and it will not always be here, nor will we always be on Earth. God is the only thing that will be forever and that is who we need to meditate on.