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When learning the Talmud one is equipped with the basic knowledge of the rules and the parameters involved, and yet when facing the sugya as it is presented in the Talmud, one is faced and confronted with staggering inadequacy, so many things don't add up and don't figure properly, the Chasam Sofer said that most "dechookim" (seemingly forced, constrained, passable but far from ideal) are true, but it's much more than that, they serve to project how the sugya is so much greater than our feeble conception and grasp. So much of learning of the Talmud is charting and delineating what we don't know.
Learning Kabbala is the opposite. No one really knows the supernal esoteric stark truth of the concepts being discussed. During the learning one gleans here and there some messages and reflections that resonate.
Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman
When learning the Talmud one is equipped with the basic knowledge of the rules and the parameters involved, and yet when facing the sugya as it is presented in the Talmud, one is faced and confronted with staggering inadequacy, so many things don't add up and don't figure properly, the Chasam Sofer said that most "dechookim" (seemingly forced, constrained, passable but far from ideal) are true, but it's much more than that, they serve to project how the sugya is so much greater than our feeble conception and grasp. So much of learning of the Talmud is charting and delineating what we don't know.
Learning Kabbala is the opposite. No one really knows the supernal esoteric stark truth of the concepts being discussed. During the learning one gleans here and there some messages and reflections that resonate.
Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman
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