The Big Picture of Judaism

As I said before, I'm truly convinced that we're living at the most interesting time in history. As things around us are changing with accelerting speed (well, think about internet- noone knew what it is just in mid 90-es! )-It's first time in human history that we have free access to almost unlimited resourses of knowledge!  And we are yet to see this huge quantity of new information to translate into quality!
New tendency of globalisation and networking on all levels finally brings home the great vision of all the esoteric teachings of  the ancients- World as One big Organism, where everything is interconnected, interrelated and interdependant! On Kabbalistic terms, this superstructure of the world is called Adam Kadmon.
And HERE COMES THE CHALLENGE- as modern science helps us to develop stronger understanding of the physical structure of the world, Modern religion has to give us clear and contemporary understanding of it's metaphysical structure!
In case of Judaism, that gave the world monotheism and through it's affiliates (I mean Christianity and Islam) introduced some very important concepts that shaped our society (such as Hesed-Loving Kindness, Justice, Equality in front of the Law, etc)- it seems, today we are in desperate need to address the challenge of post-Modernity and to rediscover the Big Picture of Judaism.
If you require some examples, there's a couple of them
1). Web yeshiva launched a new online discussion on "the Mission of the Orthodoxy". Although the topic clearly suggests the parameters of discussion- it's specifically addressing Torah-observant Jews that call themselves Orthodox- it already stirred some heated discussion- "what is it that makes us who we are"
If you're interested, you can follow this discussion here-
http://blog.webyeshiva.org/orthodoxy/the-mission-opf-orthodoxy-special-message/

2). More general question, addressing the issue from a broader perspective- something like "What is the Big Picture of  Judaism" is posted on Machanaim website (Russian) in a new article written by Pinchas Polonsky
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dcjbfrwk_193d3hk3fgv

I think, it shows very important understanding of a REAL NEED- after hundreds of years of nitpicking and "specialisation", we are finally lost in this huge amount of data on the number of the trees, their details and various characteristics... BUT WHERE IS THE FOREST? What is the Big Picture of Judaism?

Here in this post, i just wanted to give you some "food for thought"...
This topic will be continued in my next posts