God's Voice

I began to be concerned about defining terms. "What do you mean by ‘God’s voice?’ For example, do you have to be able to hear God’s voice before you know his demand?"

"Only in the sense of Biblical prophets," he answered. "If I were to ask you with which of your senses do you apprehend love... ?" He paused.

"I would say no sense and all senses, probably. I would say one loves with a deeper sense, something beyond the regular senses."

"I accept that," Rabbi Stern said. "Except that in Biblical terms they use words like ‘and God spoke,’ or they saw a ‘vision.’ I’m not sure that God’s speaking or a divine vision implies certain human-like qualities. In other words, this doesn’t mean that God had a body, you know, or that kind of thing. These terms are just the box that human beings are in when they try to articulate something in their language which is essentially emotional. Every word has constraints to it. The minute you give a word to something, you’ve also set its limits, and that’s the human box we' re in.

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