“What He is Telling Me” p: 161

AyinBase with R' Paltiel ThursdayNight 25 Iyar 5772  

Page 161 – lower third of the page (line starts, 'hadavar...') For text, see link top right of the blog. Or for text right click here.

There is an essence surrounding the concept that is realized by seeing the face of the teacher, or having him in your mind's eye... and this corresponds to acknowledging the Giver of the Torah when one learns... then the learning will be correctly orientated to the truth of Torah, and then there will be drawn down an element of the Essence, which is the Source of Torah.

We learned before, when the Rebbe described at great length what has to take place when the Rav has to rule on a question. He knows the material from before. But up till this moment he has learned it on a mind/theory level. And now he goes through a different process. The expression ruled is 'he has to recognize that what he sees is true'.

As opposed to saying, 'this is what it says'.

Why not just, 'it says so, and it is true'? What is needed beyond this. He has to represent the truth. The Torah are His sayings and these saying befit the One Saying. He personifies the sayings of theTorah. 

Yes we're learning Torah, and 'it says so', but that's not the end of it.

But rather, it makes sense that, 'He says it, and no-one else says it. I am learning not the torah written here, but what He is telling me'. We start with, 'okay, Rebbe teach me'.

'Work 6 days and abstain totally on the 7^th day. Abstain absolutely. You can't carry a hankechief in the street. But in your house you can carry anything'. Who makes such a statement? Where does such a statement find reality? Only He says it. Only in Him does it have a foundation.