Raba emunasecha!

Hashem has tremendous faith in us!

The most difficult inyanim are couched in the simplest language. As stated, the nations of the world concoct great labyrinths to hide their treasure, but HaShem has placed the most cherished of possessions in the open, because no-one thinks to look there.

How often have we heard “the m’kublim state this,” or “the kabbala states this,” from speakers with confidence,  who, if asked, would feign humility  regarding their own kabbala.

We know Moshe rabbenu was m’kabel, for it states ‘moshe kebel Torah m’sinai’ and his Torah states Bereshis bara El-okim es haShemayim v’es haAretz. When pressed as an olive, Rebbe Akiva, the sole sage to return unharmed from PARDES, states “v’ahavta lerecha camocha, zeh klal gadol b’Torah.” 

These two giants of our mesorah, lahvdil ben kodesh v’kodesh, do not speak in esoteric terms regarding concepts which, by the nature of their concealment in light lack any form or distinction, but instead, only in the practical application of G-dliness present in the most mundane of actions. Their words are full of praise and awe, resulting from humility and yirah.

Rabbi Chaim Zimmerman, z’t’l, stated a person who considers the esoteric  studies of the Torah as ‘mystical’ should have a din of apikorsus against him. If so, we can understand why our holy sages never utilized these teachings as lessons and left them as riddles and mushels, as the prophet teaches in Mishlei so that one who is knowing could affirm his understanding without the need for literal instruction. Does a newly married couple require their teachers to oversee the love between these two newly weds manifest? Of course not and the language of reception is like the love between a man and woman, legally bound in matrimony, hidden from the eyes of the public. For this reason we do not poskin ‘al p’ kabbala’ for the kabbala requires the halacha for revelation.