We have to learn what the Torah truly means for us!

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readOct 29, 2024

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An article in The Jerusalem Post:

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-826638

My comment:

If we want even “secular” Israelis and Jews to embrace our connection to the Torah, we need a special education explaining what the Torah truly means.

The Torah is not “simply” a book, or a collection of books together with commentaries. The Torah is not “simply” the PARDES and it does not equate with performing physical Mitzvot.

Instead – as great sages like Yehuda Ashlag and others explain – the Torah is a whole system through which we can become “truly Human beings” that become similar to reality’s single creating and governing force.

The true commendments are about, first of all, recognizing our inherently 100% egotistic, self-serving, self-justifying and hateful nature (the unfounded hate in us) and then correcting our inherent qualities until we become capable of acting like the creating force – through absolute, selfless, and unconditional love and bestowal towards others.

This is why the single most important Mitzvah of the Torah is “Love your ftiend as yourself.”

When we achieve this “supernatural” – above inherent human nature – state of loving others as we love ourselves in smaller groups, mutually towards each other, we become similar in our intentions and qualities to our source, and through this similarity we can reveal this single creating and governing force that “dresses into the Torah.”

We have to make it clear practical to everyone above any political and religious affiliations, as only when we properly use the Torah can we rebuild our Nation in mutual guarantee.

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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