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Based on letters and talks of the Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson
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283. Where Lives the Torah?

Where is the Torah? Does it reside in the heavens with the angels? Or in a parchment scroll in the ark of the synagogue? Or with the rabbis and scholars?

It lives in the heart of each person who learns it, in the voice of the one who discusses it and in the life of the one who lives it.

That heart, that voice, that life—that, too, is G-d’s word.

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Posted: Jan 22, 2011
:)
thanks
Posted By Michelle

Posted: Jan 21, 2011
Love this idea.
I love this idea that the Torah lives within everyone that learns it.
Posted By Jonathan Freeman, Tucson

Posted: Jan 21, 2011
Doc HH
Your comment hits on another theme in the book "On the Essence of Chassidus " by The Rebbe. It goes as follows. The Alter Rebbe wanted to bless a Rabbi Liepler a long life. R. Leiper responds that he does not want a longer life unless it is of high quality meaning G-dly. The passage asks how can one be given a gift, and ask that it be made even better ? On the surface it looks very inappropriate, even greedy. However R. Leiper was only asking : Give me extra life with quality/yechidus/Torah/G-d or no extra life at all. This is parallel to the familiar cry of the French Revolution " give me life liberty equality or no life at all ".

Hopefully this post jives with your insightful comment.
Posted By Anonymous

Posted: Jan 21, 2011
Where does the Torah live?
This concept is actually more complex and deep than first meets the eye.

The Torah being the word of G-d, and not separate from Him, cannot be said to live, die, or change in any manner. It was, is, and will always be, as the essence of G-d and one with Him.

What in fact lives or dies is the material body of those who study and live by it's precepts. Studying Torah increases length of days. Our G-dly soul may be asleep, but in fact knows the entire Torah, with studying simply awakening it.

In conclusion the Torah simply IS, our G-dly soul IS, and when we study it we live and increase our length of days.
Posted By Dr. Harry Hamburger, Miami, Florida

Posted: Jan 21, 2011
Essence of Chassidus
I read the short book by the Rebbe " On the Essence of Chassidus " about two years ago. i could not get a real understanding. But i got lucky and found a mentor who would try to wade through it with me. It's 30 minutes per week and very slow going on account of how intense and compacted the material is.

So what is my comment ? It is that i have learned that Torah is the word of G-d alright, but it goes beyond that. Torah is G-d. Modeh Ani via it's pristine level of Yechida is our attachment to G-d. Moreover, He is a part of us just as you say how the Torah is a part of us, heart, voice, blood flow.

By merging G-d and Torah into one,He resides within our own inner essence. We carry Our Companion not only alongside but also within. I now understand the custom of touching or kissing the Torah covering, and touching tzitzit ot the scroll on an aliyah. Touching G-d's words like touching G-d Himself.

Hopefully this is not too far off the mark.

Good Shabbos !
Posted By Anonymous

Posted: Jan 21, 2011
Where is the Torah
A beautiful perspective.
Thank you
Posted By Anonymous, Tzfat

Posted: Oct 20, 2008
Yes & the Torah is a tree of Life to ALL who eat of the sweetness. Its like sweet honey comb
Posted By valerie

Posted: Mar 10, 2008
Torah
The Torah lives in the hearts of all jews. In the heart of the unlearned as well as in the heart of the learned. it lives in my heart too.
Posted By Millard Gulledge, Portland, Oregon

Posted: Mar 10, 2008
where lives the Torah ?
People and many leaders of all religions in the world should learn that instead of calling for the "holy war". What a diffferent deepness between these words and the words you can read in other books full of hate and violence.
They are two different universes !!
Posted By fernando, Pinseque, Spain

Posted: Mar 10, 2008
kinyan in intangible form
Learning/becoming Torah is an example of kinyan in an intangible form. We 'see' it with our soul and grab it and make it ours!
Posted By Anonymous, St. PaulMN



 


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