Psalm 5:8 Being close to the Lord

“וַאֲנִי בְּרֹב חַסְדְּךָ אָבוֹא בֵיתֶךָ אֶשְׁתַּחֲוֶה אֶל הֵיכַל קָדְשְׁךָ בְּיִרְאָתֶךָ”

“But I, with Your great loving-kindness, shall enter Your House; I shall prostrate myself toward Your Holy Temple in the fear of You.”

What is my biggest wish? What is the best grace HaShem is spreading over me?, says King David – it is being close to Him. It is an Irrational thing for a limited human (120 years max on earth..) to even talk to the Lord, what does it mean to be in His holy house? Can HaShem be limited to Time and/or Place?

Indeed, that is one of the gifts that we won’t understand how and why He did, but HaShem concealed Himself when creating our world, letting us the opportunity (therefore obligation) to communicate with Him.
This also explains a bit the human urge for chasing eternity. From the first days of the people we try to overcome our ‘time and place limits’, embalm the dead, take pictures etc.
It is a natural need to get closer to the Lord.

Question: What does it mean that He limited Himself in time and place?

Answer: Our world was created in a way there are differences between every one thing to another. No two people are identical, not even two drops are the same. Even the same drop differs itself when you look at it in two different times – first it’s time period has changed, second it is probably in a different place, something has been changed in this same drop. When you entered this room you were 30 minutes different than now.

Same way, there are differences in ‘holiness’ between time to time, place to place and one person to another.