Likutay Moharan - Volume 2 - Torah-teaching 89

Knowledge Arranges All Pairings

Daas [knowledge] arranges all pairings, for all pairings are two opposites, and daas is the mediator between two opposites [see Likutay Moharan I:4]. Therefore, all pairings in the world are all made through the person of daas in the world. And therefore, sometimes it is difficult to find one’s pairing, for sometimes the two paired are very distant and are extremely opposite from one another. Therefore, it is difficult to find his pairing. And the repair for this is that one must come to the person of daas to hear Torah from his mouth, and through this, one can find his pairing. For as long as the daas is in potential, then sometimes it is impossible to connect the paired when they are greatly opposite to one another. For sometimes they are extremely opposite to one another, as above. And then it is impossible for the daas to connect them as long as the daas is in potential. Therefore, one must hear Torah from his mouth, for then the daas goes out in the aspect of: "From his mouth, knowledge and understanding" [Proverbs 2:6]. And then, when the daas goes out from potential to actual, then it can pair them even if they are greatly opposite to one another. "Shidduch" [pairing]—the initial letters are: Sifsei Kohen Yishmeru Daas VeTorah [S-K-Y-D-V] [Malachi 2:7]. And this is: "Yevakshu mipihu" [They shall seek from his mouth], for one must seek the Torah specifically from his mouth in order to bring out the daas from potential to actual, as above. And therefore, one must hear Torah specifically from his mouth, even though also in the simple speech of the person of daas there is also daas. Nevertheless, one must hear Torah specifically, for the Torah is called a bride, as our Sages, of blessed memory, said: "Do not read ‘morasha’ [heritage], but ‘me’urasa’ [betrothed]" [Pesachim 49b]. And there are also two opposites in it, for there are two types of letters in it [see Introduction to the Zohar, large letters and small letters]. And when the tzadik [righteous one] says Torah, it is the aspect of arranging pairings, for words of Torah are poor in one place and rich in another [Yerushalmi, Rosh Hashanah, chapter "They saw it in court"]. And one must connect words of Torah from place to place, for they connect words of Torah from scattered places that are distant from one another and connect them together. And through this, the innovation is made that they innovate. Thus, when the tzadik, the person of daas, says Torah, he arranges pairings. Therefore, one must hear Torah specifically from his mouth, and through this, one can find his pairing, as above.