Take Off Your Interface Tool

There’s a puzzling structure built on the side of the road just outside of town. It looks like a gate but, it’s full of dirt. So, maybe it’s a bridge? Or the remains of an aquaduct? I’ve been trying to figure it out for a long time… Today I finally realized that on the mountain above the monument is the kever (gravesite) of a tzadik. So, this must be a marker for that holy place. But the path to get there is a convoluted, twisted series of switchbacks. At least on a bike, you can’t get there in a straight line. To the eye, the path to it is a straight line but, on your bike, there’s no way you could go over that terrain on a bike. Which means that sometimes, in order to get to a goal, the path temporarily takes you in wide directions apparently away from the goal. There is a way to go straight towards the goal. But you gotta get off the bike. You have to shed your merkavah and go on foot. Then you can go straight. So maybe sometimes, our interface tool (the merkavah) determines what path we can take towards a goal. It may hamper our most direct approach. Moshe had to take off his shoes. What are shoes? They are interface tools, they are a merkavah, and God was saying “take off your interface tool and come to me directly. Just you. Just you with no interface tool. I want direct contact.”