Rabbi Joey Rosenfeld offers guidance for Elul and teshuva.
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What is the avoda right now? What should where should our spiritual work be channeled? If we want to figure out what to do with the world, we have to understand how Hashem created the world. God created the world by an act of concealment. An act of concealment that is at the very same moment an act of revelation. And so the concealment of godliness, the concealment of Hashem's absolute presence, which we can identify as this unity that we imagine, in truth, that's not where the world gets created. The world gets created specifically when Hashem relinquishes that perspective
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