musings on light and darkness

bs''d

What is the mood of an empty will? It's certainly not sad. It wants, but what it wants is nothing.

It definitely exists. It has what it wants. What other kind of existence can a will have? What is the mood of a photon? It wants, so it acts. What is the mood of darkness? It also wants. It also acts. It wants what light wants, or it wouldn't let light have it. It acts where light doesn't? No. It acts everywhere.
Does the light listen to the darkness? Does the darkness listen to the darkness? They don't have to. They're one. One will, one action. Two men are fighting. They think they have two minds. One thinks he wants what the other thinks he doesn't. But they only have one body. His nails want what his arm wants -- they both want his arm to bleed. If the arm didn't want to bleed, it wouldn't. Simple as that. Their body exists. Its mind exists. Their minds exist. Their thoughts exist. He *wants* to think what he thinks -- and he *wants* it to conflict.

And those thoughts, as it turns out, want to be destroyed. His arm wants to be destroyed. His fist wants to be destroyed. He certainly wants to be destroyed.

The question is, will there be anything left? Of course.

He wants to live. He wants to live and be destroyed. He wants to think and have his thoughts destroyed. In a phrase, he wants, but what he wants is nothing.

It's hard to speak for the Jews as a whole. What I am about to say is probably wrong.

The Jews want a lot of things. They want a lot of things to live and be destroyed, and live anyway.  

The living anyway part is important. They want to lift up one foot, and have it fall again. To lift the other foot, and have it fall again. Then to lift the first foot, and so on.

That's why it's called halakha -- from "halakh" -- "He walked."