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Torah is not about getting to the truth.

When you are immersed in Torah, even while pondering the question, even while struggling to make sense of it all, you are at truth already.

Torah is about being truth.

Based on letters and talks of the Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson

From the wisdom of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory; words and condensation by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman. To order Rabbi Freeman’s book, Bringing Heaven Down to Earth, click here.

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February 3, 2010

For YR

This is really based on the fifth chapter of the Tanya, the foundation book of Chassidut Chabad. The Rebbe discussed the concept many times, and I present the idea through that lens. However, you would be best to study that chapter for yourself.

In a nutshell: G-d is infinite. All the study in the world cannot bring you any closer to infinite. G-d is beyond intellect. Intellect is just another character in His story. And yet, since G-d is also unbounded by any bounds, He is able to clothe His infiniteness within the finite bounds of the human mind, so that when a person studies Torah, his mind and G-d's mind become one. The thoughts you are thinking and the way you are thinking them is G-d's mind, so to speak.

Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

February 3, 2010

Being at truth?

How I understand, only G-d, Who is unique, who's "uniqueness is unlike any other uniqueness" can be the Truth.

How a person can be at Truth? The human truth always a comparison. We are trying to match our feeling, behavior, actions, and results with the specific matrix, which is constantly changing.
The human truth is always incomplete. This partiality is intrinsic as part of the created being.

That's why so many paths exist (see one of the recent Daly Doses). Each of them is (or at least can be) truthful.

Yes, for me the Torah is the eternal matrix. Study is the way of getting to the truth.

Please clarify "...you are at truth".

YR
Fullerton, CA