The System of the Torah

When we talk about the Torah, most people would consider it a book or maybe the five books of Moses. Others might also consider the rest of the sacred books of Judaism, like the Talmud, the Mishnah, the Gemara, and others.

Then again, some people would also consider the famous interpretations of the Torah, like those of Rashi.

Others would also consider what we learned the PARDES, which refers to the four levels of understanding and learning of the Torah: Pshat, Remez, Drush, and Sod. There are many subsequent interpretations of these four levels as well.

Others view the Torah as a system of code that extends beyond the literal meaning of the text. Many agree that while the literal meaning is important, there are deeper layers that are very symbolic and reveal much deeper instructions or teachings for us.

We have unique sages who tell us that the Torah is actually a system — a complete system that gives us the possibility to connect to a reality’s single, life-creating, and governing force.

This force provides us with this system through the books, interpretations, and all the symbolic meanings and layers that we find in the Torah.

Through it, we can fine-tune and change ourselves until we become similar to that single governing force, enabling us to connect to and start understanding this force.

These sages say that this single creating force is embedded or dressed in the Torah, and if we ourselves dress into the Torah through performing the so-called commandments, the Mitzvot, we can reveal and connect to that single life-creating and governing force.

Through this unique system, we can gradually change and further develop ourselves and start to reveal the single force that creates, nurtures, and governs life in reality.

These unique sages also tell us that the qualities of this single governing force are absolute and selfless love and giving to others. These are the qualities we need to acquire, and by dressing into these qualities, we will be able to connect, sense, and understand that single force.

The problem is that our original qualities are completely opposite.

We are born 100% egotistic, self-justifying, self-serving, and individualistic, possessing no spark of these godly qualities of love and bestowal.

This is why we need this system.

Through the system of the Torah and by performing the commandments in a special way while also focusing on the intentions of why we perform them, we can first recognize and then correct our inherent nature, acquiring the godly qualities of unconditional and selfless love and bestowal toward others.

The whole process is about our own conscious and willing self-correction and self-development with the aim to fine-tune ourselves until we “tune our frequencies to the frequency of reality’s single creating and governing force.

The Torah provides the method and the “tuning force” our sages call the “Light of the Torah.”

This Light “returns us to the Good,” making us similar to the single creating and governing force of reality until — through the acquired similarity, like a well-tuned radio receiver — we can connect to and reveal that single force.

We have to use this system like method actors who dress into the characters they want to play. They start dressing like that character, change their body shape, their speech and behavior, and live like that months before and during shooting the film about that character.

The Torah and the associated books explain to us the qualities of the Creator we need to attain and dress into, so we must constantly learn, practice, and start living as if we already possess those qualities.

Gradually, with the help of the above-mentioned “Light of the Torah,” following its instructions, we start behaving like this, completely absorbing these new, “godly” qualities above and against our original qualities.

Then, through this similarity, we will start to feel what that single life-creating and governing force might be like and how that force might behave.

To practice this method, we need other people to help us become and behave like that single creating force.

We cannot become unconditionally and selflessly loving and serving by ourselves and with ourselves.

On the other hand, we cannot practice anything toward that single operating force since we have no comprehension or practical connection to it. This is why the method of the Torah also involves a unique environment or group where like-minded people assemble.

They pledge their full effort and mutual support to each other, each committing to try to achieve those godly qualities of absolute and selfless love and bestowal towards others to help reveal that single creating and governing force.

When we start practicing this method, and everyone makes 100% effort above and against their original nature, we draw upon the special forces we can receive through the Torah.

Our aim is to learn and implement the single most important commandment of the Torah, which is the principle of loving your friend as yourself.

Then, we can reach true love, characterized by absolute, selfless, and unconditional service to others — fulfilling their desires exactly as they wish, without any egotistic or subjective distortions.

At the point of reaching this “true love,” we start to tangibly feel our similarity to that single operating and creating force.

Most importantly, I dress into my friends in this group. I try to dissolve into their desires, thoughts, and viewpoints while completely forgetting about myself. It is for this action that I ask for and draw on myself the special developing forces from the Torah.

I constantly keep my friends between me and that higher force as a screen.

I don’t want to achieve anything for myself or ask for anything for myself. I only ask for the ability to help them achieve the goal of revealing and connecting to reality’s single governing force. All I am doing is helping and facilitating them so they can connect to the higher force and reveal it, becoming partners with it.

My revelation of this higher force is not in myself; I want to observe how mutual, absolute, and perfect love and mutual bestowal work between my friends.

I am watching their connection and want them to achieve this mutual connection, responsibility, and love, which will truly reveal this higher force among them.

I use the unique method of the Torah for their sake and for the sake of everybody else to help others get closer and attain reality’s single, life-creating, and governing force.

If I am not acting with this intention, I cannot reach the similarity with reality’s single, totally selfless, and unconditionally-serving governing force.

If we all perform our individual and collective work with the system of the Torah properly, in the end, we fulfill the principle of “Israel, the Torah, and the Creator are One.”

Israel — those who aim to reveal the Creator in the Torah — correct and change themselves through the method of the Torah to such an extent that as they “dress into the Torah,” they reveal and start partnering with the Creator — reality’s single creating and governing force — through the special dressing, the similarity they achieved.

This is also the meaning that “we were created in His image,” since when we — through the Torah — shape ourselves according to His image, His godly qualities of selfless and unconditional love and service of others, we can reveal who or what force has created us.