Weekly Torah
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In this week's parshah, the Jewish people tell Moses, "All that G-d has spoken, we will do, and we will hear."

The greatness of the people of Israel was not that they were prepared to blindly follow G-d's bidding without any understanding. If this were the case they would have just said, "We will do." Their greatness was, as our Sages emphasize, that they placed their doing before their understanding.

Yes, we must understand and learn about what we are doing. However, our limited understanding and lack of knowledge should not cause our actual actions to be lacking. If we know it is something that must be done, we do it first. Only afterwards do we probe into the whys and wherefores. The same is true of Torah.