Small tidbits and Sparks of wisdom

The reality is simple: Hashem’s presence and Torah fill the world completely. There’s no vacuum and no empty space. When Am Yisrael were in the desert for nearly forty years, the Shechinah was openly revealed. Everyone lived with direct guidance from Hashem, and the spiritual level was so high that even ordinary people experienced something close to nevuah. Torah wasn’t an addition to life there — it was the air they breathed. That was 100% spiritual clarity.

Once the Jewish people left that level, especially after exile from Eretz Yisrael, something had to replace what was lost. Halachic structures, minhagim, takanos, and all the later developments didn’t come out of nowhere. They filled the gap left by the absence of open prophecy and the diminished kedushah of the land outside Israel. Not because Hashem became “less” present — He never does — but because the world can’t function with a spiritual void. Whatever clarity is missing gets replaced by layers of practice, safeguards, and rabbinic structures so the system still holds at 100%.

Hashem’s presence is always total, but it manifests differently depending on the spiritual state of the people and the holiness of the place. Outside Eretz Yisrael, the Shechinah doesn’t rest in the same way, so the lived experience of Torah takes on more human-made frameworks. Those are not replacements for Hashem; they are the vessels that keep Torah alive when open kedushah is hidden.

In other words: the world is always full of Hashem. What changes is how He allows Himself to be experienced — through nevuah in the desert and the Beis HaMikdash era, and through halachic structures, minhagim, and takanos in exile. The system adjusts so the 100% is always maintained.