Dreams of Reishit - Relating רעת-כפיית טובה- הליכה בדרכיו – כניסה לארץ – ראשית –ועשיתם אתם into a single new reality of ברית in which the full recognition of conscious experience as a sharing of the dream of ראשית no less a משל (as the חינוך takes such pains to point out) than the הנהגת השם itself. The State-of-the-Universe becomes the issue as he points out with זעמו and the רגע of עריכת דין. In that sense so is a world of ברכה or a world of קללה, the first time that ראה deals with the nature of life itself and sees it as a function of החיים ואת הטוב and makes possible the ultimate choice of ובחרת בחיים in next week’s parasha.In this way the many different elements become interrelated with the actual כניסה לארץ which is now entirely a function of individual experience as sharing a common dream linked directly to הנהגה. This is the final growth out of a belief that, say, יציאת מצרים was a problem needing to be solved, or that the הנהגת השם deals with a reality that needs solving, or that the mitzvot are reactions to the reality of the world. In fact true ברית implies a mutual reality of ראשית which is expressed in the e xperience of the physical world itself, and is thus linked to the multiple levels of ראשית that the רבינו בחיי points out. For the first time there is a השם הגדול והנכבד expressed in this reality so that the investment in the story becomes the old man planting the tree…This is the ultimate expression of דעת וחיבור which is the only way that I do not see any כפייה in the nature of an “external reality” and thus allows כח מעשיו וראשית to be expressed in the actual integration of the individual’s and the national כניסה לארץ which allows us to use the כי תבוא in two different ways—one immediate and the other after ירושה וישיבה and spread out over individual time which becomes a commonality of experience for which we have no other preferred explanation.On this level the Holocaust aspects are not troubling because they are experienced as in the Zohar as ultimate linkages of a father who cannot let go, whereas any description of להדמות בדרכיו when based on a totally physical description of nature make no sense because there is nothing merciful about our experience of a nature red in tooth and claw.