Friday, June 15, 2012

Learning to Internalize


How well do we really internalize what we hear? One of the great chassidic masters, Rabbi Avraham Kalisker, said "When we were by the Magid (referring to Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov's leading deciple who was know as "The Magid of Mezritch" ), we would travel for weeks to spend one shabbos with him, and we would hear one sentence from him. Then we would go home and spend the rest of the year living that one sentance"
We learned on shavuot, that when G-d spoke the ten comandments, our souls left our bodies. The revelation given with each word was so great! Over the generations, the same words have been said over and expounded on by countless teachers. Yet the great revelations that were revealed on Mt Sinai, haven't even barely begun to be tapped into.
Our sages taught that our Holy Torah was the blue brint of creation. Everything is there. All the answers, all the secrets of humanity, science, philosophy, our souls....Everything! It's up to us to look for those answers. When we ask why, we open the door to understanding. It's easy to study a text, and "know" what it says, but to really know, we need to ask ourselves "why does it say?" We need to experience each and every sentence for ourselves and look for the truest meaning behind it.
I bless all of us with a wonderful Shabbos, and the strength to internalize the Torah that we learn, to the depth that it becomes completely one with us.
Shabbat Shalom!

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