Let My People Know

"How is it that I do not have a way of knowing Him?"

 

To be sure, it may be claimed that I am a product of Divine grace. 

If so, how is it that I do not have a way of knowing Him? 

It is as though a creature of three dimensions were to draw a picture of two dimensions. 

This two-dimensional picture could never grasp the concept of three dimensions or comprehend that which brought it into existence. 

We, too, are thus a sort of transfer or a projection from some higher plane of being, constantly receiving from it and even endeavoring to grow into it, but altogether unable ever to grasp it or understand it.

–Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
 
From The Sustaining Utterance by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz