וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יהוה אֶל־אַבְרָ֔ם לֶךְ־לְךָ֛ מֵאַרְצְךָ֥ וּמִמּֽוֹלַדְתְּךָ֖ וּמִבֵּ֣ית אָבִ֑יךָ אֶל־הָאָ֖רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר אַרְאֶֽךָּ׃
YHWH said to Avram:
Go-you-forth
from your land,
from your kindred,
from your father’s house,
to the land that I will let you see.
(Rabbi M. Comins, A Wild Faith, 2014 (2007), p. 4)
וַֽיִּשְׁמְע֞וּ אֶת־ק֨וֹל יהוה אֱלֹהִ֛ים מִתְהַלֵּ֥ךְ בַּגָּ֖ן לְר֣וּחַ הַיּ֑וֹם וַיִּתְחַבֵּ֨א הָֽאָדָ֜ם וְאִשְׁתּ֗וֹ מִפְּנֵי֙ יהוה אֱלֹהִ֔ים בְּת֖וֹךְ עֵ֥ץ הַגָּֽן׃
They heard the sound of YHWH God [who was] walking about in the garden at the breezy-time of the day.
And the human and his wife hid themselves from the face of YHWH God, amid the trees of the garden.
האדם ראוי שיתדמה לקונו: הָאָדָם רָאוּי שֶׁיִּתְדַּמֶּה לְקוֹנוֹ וְאָז יִהְיֶה בְּסוֹד הַצּוּרָה הָעֶלְיוֹנָה צֶלֶם וּדְמוּת, שֶׁאִלּוּ יְדֻמֶּה בְּגוּפוֹ וְלֹא בִּפְעֻלּוֹת הֲרֵי הוּא מַכְזִיב הַצּוּרָה וְיֹאמְרוּ עָלָיו צוּרָה נָאָה וּמַעֲשִׂים כְּעוּרִים....
“[Concerning] the human being, it is proper/worthy/ra’uy that he should make himself resemble /yitdameh his Possessor /qono, and then he will be [configured] in the secret of the upper/exalted (supernal) form/tsurah, tselem and d’mut. For if he is alike in his body and not in his actions, he makes the form [in which he was created] a lie…” (translation by Rabbi D. Seidenberg, Kabbalah and Ecology: God's image in the more-than-human world. 2015, p. 189).
Q. What if we are walking not "towards" the Divine, but rather "within" the Divine?
