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we are looking at the fact that Torah was also enclothed in the tree of knowledge. Enclothement has to do with ha-arah – reflected light and torah is an essential light. The answer is that it is enclothed for the sake of making a distinction below.
It identifies good and bad, without having to taste each and work with contrasts.
We come into this world and our first awareness is world. And then we start to recognise things, till we say, 'there cannot be a place without a king' and now we start to relate to the king. This is a birur, since he starts from below. Torah brings the manhig/king into the birah/palace. This is the principle of na-aseha/we will do, preceding nisham/understanding. This is due to the king being more real than the structure. Now torah becomes not, 'tell me how to live in your world!' but rather, 'tell me how to live in Your presence!'
The soul comes into the body. The body has 613 parts. Each part gets a different vitality from the soul, but it is one life. This is from Above to below – this is not something created on a physical level. Mishnah notes all the different circumstances and defines the halacha – from above. The essence does not become bound by the garment.
No-one has to be told 'don't walk into fire' – in the future the mitzvot will have this level of clarity to us.
Torah descended and got involved in very low levels – as in the cases of 'false claims'. You may think torah would deal with this by just weeding out the false claims, which is true, the Rav has to scrutinize the witnesses etc, but there is another aspect. If one contestant could have said a lie and the court would not have known of it, then it stands, since torah is dealing with this world.
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