Q&A: Kabbalah
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Kabbalah
Question
Hello,
Do you find any real content in the statement, "The Holy One, blessed be He, looked into the Torah and created the world"? The source is in the Zohar, and it would be easy to wave the question away, but I’d still be glad to hear your opinion.
Answer
No. It’s a general statement about the greatness of the Torah, and perhaps about some similarity between the structure of the world or the human being and the Torah. I don’t see what can really be derived from it. Certainly not what people usually derive from it.