At Sinai, we declared, “We will do and we will understand!”
Angels descended from heaven and placed two crowns upon our heads.
One crown for “We will do.” The other for “We will understand.”
But that’s puzzling.
We were wise to accept the Torah even before we understood, to preface “we will do” to “we will understand.” Because we knew well the One who was giving us this Torah.
That gives us one crown. And the other?
The other is the crown for the understanding that comes after doing.
Because when your understanding comes before your actions, and your knowledge has nothing to do with how you live, then you know nothing.
But when you begin with a resolve to carry out whatever you learn, then your understanding soars to an entirely new level.
For that, you deserve a crown, for you have transcended yourself.
The Torah only provides spiritual instructions.
"We shall do" instructs us to act as though we are in the spiritual world where everybody is united as one heart and mind.
"We shall hear" implies that we shall understand the quality of Love. When we unite as one then G_d's force flows between us to glue us together. Then we reach the level of "Bina" in the higher world where we "hear" or sense this sublime quality between our hearts. We come closer to understand G_dliness, Love.
United your hearts as one then you will sense or "hear" the sublime state of love. "Seeing" would imply a greater understanding.
Let's learn to united and hear what real love is!
Cmon Dude Seriously Why!
The fact that you know the word “Bina” is in fact very cute but that doesn’t give you the right to butcher the entire judaism saying that it’s strictly spiritual stuff, no one needs that
The global, connected form of the spiritual world was revealed to Abraham who taught this interdependent lifestyle to his disciples. They lived in high spiritual attainment as one man in one heart, until the fall from spiritual living known as fall of the temple, 2000 years ago. They fell into egoism. Then the spiritual meaning disappeared from their view. The actions remained (Judaism) but lost connection to their internal spiritual meaning. Religious observance is respected to give us a framework to keep our culture, customs and retain our social existence in the world.
Sages wrote 4 levels of how to correct our souls to enter the upper world, our destiny. PARDES is an acronym.The Torah starts with 'S' Sod, Secret terms. We read it literally as if it refers to matters in our world. 'D', Deruz,hints at meaning, 'R'Remez, allegorical, until we understand 'P',Pshat, simple, transparent spiritual terms. Our aim is to understand and rise spiritually when our desire awakens. Let's progress