One of the outcomes of this AI era is a healthy skepticism. Whether its artificially generated or deliberately misconstrued or totally made-up – it has become much harder to take information at face value. Most sane people now question and double-check what they read and see online. The cost is that even the truth gets overly scrutinized and questioned and maybe left with a smidge of doubt. It is much harder to accept anything these days.
The problem with this pervasive doubt and societal skepticism is that it risks turning us into overly skeptical, cynical and non-trusting people. It’s becoming harder and harder to discern genuine authenticity and therefore harder to recognize and appreciate it altogether. Skepticism and logical analysis has its place, but when it reaches too deeply into our soul and psyche it risks changes us as people.
Passover celebrates a tremendous sense of trust. The people left Egypt following Moses into the unknown. There’s a beautiful verse in Jeremiah that speaks to that deep sense of trust in our beginnings as a people. The Manna was another exercise in trust. And at the Splitting of the Sea the Jews cried out: “THIS is our G-d!” and the Midrash explains that it was so abundantly and clearly evident they could almost point to it. At the Giving of the Torah the Jews committed “We will do!” before “We will understand.”
Marriage is built on such a deep degree of trust and commitment, that hopefully continues to deepen through life together. It doesn’t mean we abandon logic altogether or that we cease to think, but that we have a deeper capacity, a well within that can connect on levels that transcend that.