Our vision is limited, and we have not undertaken the effort to understand and correct for that limitation. If the Torah was the only casualty of this loss of spiritual sensitivity, we could simply mourn the passing of the age of Spirit and the Torah which embodied it - one more great cultural vision consigned to the annals of history. But this would be a passing which we cannot tolerate, for we would be consigning man himself to history. Our inner connection to an infinity which reaches beyond our individuality is not an incidental attribute or an icon of a particular culture. Monkeys make tools and can be trained to recognize and exchange symbols.
Dolphins play, and machines can be programmed to give sophisticated responses to questions.
To lose this inner connection is to lose our humanity. It is no accident that as we forget that which makes us human, we come to view ourselves as intelligent animals or machines. We have lost any sense of our radical uniqueness because we have become blind to that which defines us - our connection to the transcendent realm of Spirit. This transcendent connection is an objective expression of our humanity. Even though we can function like animals or machines, we cannot be them, for we are human.