Kant discovered that our minds are storytelling machines. We are masters at taking a limited set of data from the outside world and weaving this into a narrative. Yet, the narrative we end up telling ourselves often ends up not being a cute and endearing child's bedtime story but more like a scandalous drama or horror film. The storeis we tell ourselves often bring our deepest insecurities to the surface, as evidenced by Shakespeare's Tragedy, Othello. Aaron's reaction to the death of his two sons inside the Mishkan seems to indicate that we should not so quickly presume to connect the dots of what we perceive. Rather, we should mindfully observe our experiences rather than rushing to conclusions. Paradoxically, it may be that Moshe's advice to Aaron shows how stoically observing reality and telling ourselves the stories we want to hear are, in fact, one and the same.

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