\u201cIf He brought us near Mt. Sinai and did not give us the Torah, we would be content.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The interpreters asked, \u201cWithout the Torah, how can it be said that we would be content? After all, the Creator created the world for the Torah, as our sages said about the verse, \u2018If My covenant were not day and night, I would not set the ordinances of heaven and earth\u2019\u201d (Avoda Zara<\/em> 3a).<\/p>\n\n\n\n We should ask according to what our sages said, \u201cI have created the evil inclination; I have created the Torah as a spice\u201d (Kiddushin<\/em> 30b). If their filth was removed at the time of Mt. Sinai, meaning that the evil inclination was removed from them, then they no longer need the Torah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Torah that was given to them then was from a higher quality, as an essence, and not as a means. That is, they need the Torah not because the Torah is the goal. Rather, the Torah came to help us achieve something else, which cannot be obtained without the Torah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, in its higher quality, the Torah is a goal. It follows that the majority of the Torah is as a means for the evil inclination, but there are a chosen few in the generation who are rewarded with the Torah as an essence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Concerning \u201cTeach me the whole of the Torah on one leg,\u201d he said, \u201cThat which you hate, do not do unto your neighbor\u201d (Shabbat<\/em> 33a). It is as Rabbi Akiva said, \u201cLove your neighbor as yourself is the great rule of the Torah.\u201d The people of Israel were rewarded with this love, as our sages said about the verse, \u201cAnd the people camped \u2026 as one man with one heart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n It follows that the giving of the Torah was as a gift, meaning an essence, and not as 613 Eitin<\/em> [Aramaic: counsels], called Mitzvot<\/em> [commandments].<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cIf He brought us near Mt. Sinai and did not give us the Torah, we would be content.\u201d The interpreters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":6246,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"topic":[26],"class_list":["post-11446","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-rabash"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n