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Torah study

שו”תTorah study
asked 2 years ago

I attended a discussion about the value of studying Torah. Two options were raised: either it is something metaphysical, a connection to God, or it is understanding His will and God’s legal system and thus getting closer to Him. I tend to agree with the second option. What do you think?


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מיכי Staff answered 2 years ago
My opinion is that there is no difference between the two. Understanding His desires is the key to connecting with Him. He elaborated on this in the fourth chapter of the Naphtali.

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מנסה להבין replied 2 years ago

I didn't understand, I read the above-mentioned opening in the past (according to your recommendation) and throughout all the chapters it talks about some kind of mystical connection, and when a person speaks words of Torah it is as if God is speaking, this doesn't seem like a rational explanation to me, and it may even be true according to Kabbalah. Mm, I'm asking about the second possibility I presented, what do you think?

מיכי Staff replied 2 years ago

I wrote my opinion. What's the point of going back again?

מנסה להבין replied 2 years ago

“I also said that a scroll should be written in the size of a book that is written in the size of a Torah business. Because even at the same time that a person is engaged in the Torah below, every word that comes out of his mouth, as it were, also comes out of the mouth of the Blessed One at that very moment. Because the supreme root of the Torah is in the highest, in the worlds called the worlds of the Endless, the secret of the invisible garment. Do you see a rational explanation here? I did not get it, I would be happy if you could help. In addition, “and even if he is engaged in matters of legend that do not have any legal basis, he is also stuck in the words of the Blessed One.” For the rational explanation, this is completely incomprehensible, and also, as I think I saw you write, there is no point in studying the matters of legend.

מיכי Staff replied 2 years ago

As you know, the definition of a rational explanation is: my explanation, to my epoch from other explanations.
I don't know what kind of explanation you expect. He claims that learning is adherence to the will of God and therefore adherence to Him Himself. Is that not rational for you? So no.
Indeed, in my opinion there is no educational value in studying a fairy tale, but as far as I understand, there is no special value either (because I do not accept that fairy tales are the work of God).

י.ד. replied 2 years ago

The Aggadatha also contain moral and encouraging words for keeping the Torah. Is this Torah study in the gebra?

מיכי Staff replied 2 years ago

In my opinion, such a thing is not study at all. Study is the acquisition of knowledge. The practice of virtue and observance of Torah is not study, and in any case it is not study of Torah.

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