Great is Understanding Before the Holy One, More than the Torah

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Great is Understanding Before the Holy One, More than the Torah

Great is Understanding Before the Holy One, More than the Torah

Torah study must be combined with the wisdom that deepens one’s understanding of its meaning.

("Immediately Moses went and returned in all their dwellings of Israel to seek from them those with understanding but found none, as it is said (Deuteronomy 1): 'And I took the heads of your tribes, wise and known men,' and found no discerning ones. From here you learn that great is understanding before the Holy One, more than the Torah, since even if a person reads Torah, Prophets, and Writings, studies Mishnah and Midrashim, laws and aggadot, sermons and Tosefot, places and positions and narrations and all the orders of Bereshit, and has no understanding, his Torah is worth nothing, as it is said (Isaiah 29): 'But the understanding of the prudent shall be hidden'" - Otzar HaMidrashim (Eisenstein) Akiva, 411)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

גְּדוֹלָה בִּינָה לִפְנֵי הקב"ה יוֹתֵר מִן הַתּוֹרָה

Definition (Hebrew)

לִמּוּד הַתּוֹרָה חַיָּב לִהְיוֹת מְשֻׁלָּב בַּחָכְמָה הַמַּעֲמִיקָה לְהָבִין אֶת מַשְׁמָעוּתָהּ.

("מִיָּד הָלַךְ מֹשֶׁה וְהָיָה מַחֲזִיר בְּכָל מִשְּׁכֵנוֹתֵיהֶם שֶׁל יִשְׂרָאֵל לְבַקֵּשׁ מֵהֶם בַּעֲלֵי בִּינָה וְלֹא מָצָא, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (דְּבָרִים א) וָאֶקַּח אֶת רָאשֵׁי שִׁבְטֵיכֶם אֲנָשִׁים חֲכָמִים וִידֻעִים, וְלֹא מָצָא נְבוֹנִים. מִכָּאן אַתָּה לָמֵד שֶׁגְּדוֹלָה בִּינָה לִפְנֵי הקב"ה יוֹתֵר מִן הַתּוֹרָה, שֶׁאֲפִלּוּ אָדָם קוֹרֵא תּוֹרָה נְבִיאִים וּכְתוּבִים וְשׁוֹנָה מִשְׁנָה וּמִדְרָשִׁים הֲלָכוֹת וְאַגָּדוֹת שְׁמוּעוֹת וְתוֹסָפוֹת מוֹשָׁבוֹת וּמַעֲמָדוֹת וְהַגָּדוֹת וְכָל סִדְרֵי בְּרֵאשִׁית וְאֵין בּוֹ בִּינָה, אֵין תּוֹרָתוֹ שָׁוָה כְּלוּם, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (יְשַׁעְיָה כט) וּבִינַת נְבוֹנָיו תִּסְתַּתֵּר"- אוֹצַר הַמִּדְרָשִׁים (אַיְזֶנְשְׁטֵיְן) עֲקִיבָא, 411)

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