Thursday, May 8, 2014

Tishby on the Torah's Fundemantal Nature

"When the kabbalist comes to assess the Torah's fundamental nature, its hidden mystery, he does not see it as a collection of commandments, statutes, and ordinances, of ethical pronouncements and accounts of historical events, all proceeding from the mouth of God. It is for him a massive treasury of divine forces and divine lights that have donned the form of letters and words and so revealed themselves in the book of the Torah."

-- Isaiah Tishby, Wisdom of the Zohar p. 283

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