“Creation has a beginning, the creator does not, we know this b/c the universe reveals infinite power and wisdom, and infinite means no beginning”
A real relationship isn’t just belief or effort. It’s something you can feel. If there’s no joy, intimacy isn’t really happening.
Many people feel like something is off in their relationship with G-d, and they struggle to feel close. They still care. They still try. But the joy isn’t happening, so the relationship doesn’t feel alive.
The reason goes deeper than effort. G-d is not only our Father. He is also our King. And joy in a relationship with a King only comes after awe.
Awe means realizing how infinite He is:
that He sees the whole story from outside the story, that nothing we do ever surprises or threatens Him, and yet our choices truly matter because we live inside the moment He is creating.
When that awareness reaches us emotionally, it brings three simple feelings:
1. A little sadness, because you feel how far you are from the closeness you want.
2. A little fear, because you realize the relationship is real and your choices matter.
3. A little wonder, because you’re amazed that Someone so infinite is actually good and wants a relationship with you.
This whole experience is only possible because of concealment. To let us exist as real, independent beings, G-d has to hide His infiniteness and His goodness. That hiddenness creates distance. And distance is what makes a King–subject relationship possible.
We feel that distance emotionally as fear, as shame, as sadness. Those feelings are not mistakes. They are how distance is felt by a human being.
When we give those feelings words, when we speak them honestly instead of hiding them, distance begins to turn into relationship.
Naming what we feel is part of how we become partners in creation.
That’s how we become partners:
by turning fear into awe,
shame into acts of humility,
sadness into expressing longing for closeness.
And this is important:
People-pleasing, perfectionism, and emotional numbness are not humility. They are ways the nervous system tries to avoid shame and and feel safe.
Humility is not trying to look good, or get approval, not feeling, or be flawless. Humility is living through honesty. It’s standing where you are and speaking from there.
So He is our Father in essence, the One who loves us. And our King in relationship, the One we approach with awe. Just like human connection begins with curiosity, connection with the Infinite begins with awe.
And this is why repentance is not guilt.
Repentance is simply returning to awe, remembering Who you’re talking to.
When awe returns, closeness begins. When closeness returns, joy returns. And joy is the sign that intimacy is alive again. When there is joy, communication opens. You stop hiding. You stop guessing. You can listen and respond. From that open place, love takes shape through boundaries, the commandments that make the relationship real.
Creation is an act of unconditional love. And when we transform shame into love, we become partners in creation.
Based on teachings of Chabad Chassidus.
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