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Hama'aseh Hu Haikar | May 07, 2025
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One Torah

Hama'aseh Hu Haikar | June 27, 2025

For a start, regarding Torah study: Considering how Rashbi’s conduct was toraso uímanaso, we should add new, permanent sessions for Torah study to our schedules; for studying both the Torah’s “revealed” and especially its inner teachings (these being the teachings of Rashbi). Indeed, we should seek to unite these two dimensions as one in our study. (Lag Bíomer 5749; Hisvaaduyos p. 176. See also p. 177)

We should create new study sessions – sixty minutes, thirty minutes or even just eighteen minutes in duration.

UNITE NIGLEH WITH CHASSIDUS

We should also study the “revealed” parts of Torah – studying in a manner where Torah’s “revealed” plane is permeated with its inner mysteries. That was the innovative approach of Rashbi; he removed the divide between the inner and the revealed dimensions of Torah [showing how they are truly one]. Studying in this manner also broadens our options; each of us may choose to add [on Lag Bíomer] from whichever area in Torah we so desire…

GEMARA, RASHI…

For example: The Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli) in particular is “mixed (balul) with Torah verses, Mishnaic teachings” and all other areas of Torah, including its inner mysteries. Why, even Rashi’s commentary on the Chumash contains “amazing matters” and “wonders” of Torah’s inner dimension…

BECHOL DEROCHECHA DE'EIHU

We are instructed, “In all your paths, know Him,” meaning that in all of our mundane affairs (“your paths”), we should “know Him.” Not only should all our affairs be done for the sake of knowing Him, but rather, within the very paths that we walk while going about our daily lives, we should know Hashem.

For a start, regarding Torah study: Considering how Rashbi’s conduct was toraso uímanaso, we should add new, permanent sessions for Torah study to our schedules; for studying both the Torah’s “revealed” and especially its inner teachings (these being the teachings of Rashbi). Indeed, we should seek to unite these two dimensions as one in our study. (Lag Bíomer 5749; Hisvaaduyos p. 176. See also p. 177)

We should create new study sessions – sixty minutes, thirty minutes or even just eighteen minutes in duration.

UNITE NIGLEH WITH CHASSIDUS

We should also study the “revealed” parts of Torah – studying in a manner where Torah’s “revealed” plane is permeated with its inner mysteries. That was the innovative approach of Rashbi; he removed the divide between the inner and the revealed dimensions of Torah [showing how they are truly one]. Studying in this manner also broadens our options; each of us may choose to add [on Lag Bíomer] from whichever area in Torah we so desire…

GEMARA, RASHI…

For example: The Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli) in particular is “mixed (balul) with Torah verses, Mishnaic teachings” and all other areas of Torah, including its inner mysteries. Why, even Rashi’s commentary on the Chumash contains “amazing matters” and “wonders” of Torah’s inner dimension…

BECHOL DEROCHECHA DE'EIHU

We are instructed, “In all your paths, know Him,” meaning that in all of our mundane affairs (“your paths”), we should “know Him.” Not only should all our affairs be done for the sake of knowing Him, but rather, within the very paths that we walk while going about our daily lives, we should know Hashem.

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