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Chabad Research Unit — rse Summary Yisro 5738 ADDING TO THE TORAH

Выпуск: Chabad Research Unit — rse Summary Yisro 5738 ADDING TO THE TORAH. Темы: не определены автоматически. CHABAD ‫ב"ה‬ RESEARCH UNIT he Rebbe's Discourses T Summaries of points from the Rebbe’s Chassidic Discourses ‫בלי אחריות כלל וכלל‬ ‫ קונטרעס כ''ב שבט תשמ''ט מוגה‬- ‫באתי לגני פרשת יתרו תשל''ח‬ Published for Shabbat Sedra Yitro 24 Shevat 5784, 3 February 20241 ADDING TO THE TORAH ATI LEGANI, “I G-D HAVE COME INTO MY GARDEN”2, B WHICH MEANS THAT the essence of the Shechinah has descended and been revealed in the world. As explained in Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak’s famous series of discourses, this took place when the Sanctuary was built and the Divine was revealed there, as G-d said, “make for Me a Sanctuary and then, I will dwell in it3” and, the discourse explains, in each of individual. Chabad Research Unit – www.chabadresearch.net – cru@lubavitchuk.com Further, the Bati Legani discourse explains that the most effective effort to create this indwelling is not working with aspects of holiness, but facing the challenge of the negative: either quelling, restraining it, or transforming it to good. Thus, one’s knowledge of mathematics might help one understand more clearly a discussion in the Talmud, or as an example of a higher level of transformation, the Rambam’s knowledge of Greek astronomy became part of his Laws of the Sanctification of the New Moon and thus they became an actual part of Torah itself7. For once someone determines in a state of poverty that they will study and keep Torah, their situation is transformed and they become wealthy (see Ethics 4:9), like a prince: wealthy in both spiritual and material terms, which will ultimately be fulfilled with the coming of Moshiach, swiftly in our days. Torah teachings are holy – please treat these pages with care 8 One might suggest, that if a new situation arises, on account of secular advance, and consequently a question is asked of a rabbi, the question and his answer become part of the Responsa literature of Torah (ed.). But Jethro’s recognition of the Divine through transforming his secular wisdom, coming from below, had the effect of connecting the Torah to the Essence of the Divine, which is beyond the distinction between light and darkness and beyond ‘above’ and ‘below’. The result is that, as the Alter Rebbe states in his Laws of Torah Study (1:4), every individual has the power and the duty to ad

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