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Why Not Marriage?
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| So, okay, so people will feel alone. | |
| Does the aloneness grow over time, or do you think that within like a month of the marriage, a lot of people already have it? | |
| I think it's there all the time. | |
| You can get distracted, you can be excited about the marriage, but in every quiet moment, you realize you're alone in the world. | |
| And the only cure is marriage, by the way. | |
| I mean, God said, therefore should a man leave his mother and father and cleave to his wife. | |
| Why can't you be close with your mother and father and be one with them? | |
| Good, go on. | |
| Because to them you're number three. | |
| Hopefully they have each other. | |
| That's right. | |
| So the only relationship in which you are really one is a marriage. | |
| Where you truly become one. | |
| Right, not with children either. | |
| Not with parents, not with children. | |
| I subscribe to that 100%. | |
| I know that. | |
| There's very little we disagree on on this subject. | |
| There may be little we disagree on on a lot of subjects. | |
| Other subjects may be. | |
| But anyway, whatever it is, I'm glad that you know that. | |
| I told you I don't talk about the topic with guests during the breaks because I want to always reserve it for the listeners. | |
| But I did mention one of my favorite lines in the Bible where God said, it's not good for man to be alone. | |
| You said you had thoughts on that subject, on that verse. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And I'd only realized this recently, even though I've read it so many times. | |
| God is creating the world. | |
| On the first day, he created light. | |
| And on the second day, he created the heaven. | |
| On the third day, he created grass and trees. | |
| And then all of a sudden, God says, I created man, but it's not good with man alone, so I'm going to create a woman. | |
| Why the statement? | |
| You're doing great. | |
| You're creating. | |
| You know, you're on a roll. | |
| Just create what you need to create. | |
| What's with the statement? | |
| It's almost like he's justifying himself or something. | |
| Not good with man alone, I'll create a woman. | |
| Just go ahead and do it. | |
| Right, like everything else. | |
| Like everything else. | |
| He didn't say it's not good for there not to be light. | |
| Right. | |
| Or only a sun without a moon. | |
| Yeah, right. | |
| Exactly. | |
| Okay, so go on. | |
| It is an absolutely divine instinct to not want to be alone. | |
| It's not human. | |
| Because as far as humans are concerned... | |
| All you ever hear is, leave me alone. | |
| So is it good to be alone or is it not good to be alone? | |
| If a human being were perfectly capable, totally self-sufficient, anything wrong with that? | |
| Be alone. | |
| Don't depend on anybody. | |
| Don't need anybody. | |
| Well, that's the goal in modern life. | |
| But go on. | |
| I don't want to distract you. | |
| Go on. | |
| So when God said it is not good, he actually created that. | |
| He created loneliness. | |
| He created the fact that being just you is not good. | |
| Wow. | |
| Even when you're perfect. | |
| Like him. | |
| Well, that's great. | |
| That is a great line. | |
| If I could, for my second edition of my Genesis commentary, I will cite you. | |
| The Mishnator. | |
| That's right. | |
| The second one. | |
| Right, exactly. | |
| You will love this then. | |
| I wrote in my commentary something I had heard from a Protestant minister. | |
| I never heard it from him. | |
| Someone told me. | |
| So I couldn't cite who it is. | |
| And I never found out the source. | |
| But this I would love your reaction to. | |
| This minister, this pastor said God was saying something else as well. | |
| Adam, after all, related to God. | |
| So even God and you. | |
| In a sense, God is saying, I'm creating you in my image. | |
| For no particular reason, I don't want to be alone. | |
| And I'm giving you that same instinct. | |
| So that even on a human level, besides your relationship with God, which is mystical... | |