Likutay Moharan - Volume 2 - Torah-teaching 118

Regarding Innovations in Torah

Regarding innovations in Torah, there are great ones who praised those who say Torah without thought and prior study. He said that this is not such a merit, for certainly one can say Torah without thought and prior study, for one can connect thought and speech to Hashem [G-d] and say Torah without thought and prior study. But it is better when one thinks Torah. [Bereishis Rabbah, parashas Ki Sisa, parasha 40]: "When Hashem desires to reveal Torah, He reviews it four times before saying it". And they learned from the verse: "Then He saw it and recounted it, prepared it, and also investigated it" [Job 28:27], which is written here in four aspects: "saw it and recounted it," etc. That Hashem, so to speak, sees and recounts and prepares and investigates the words of Torah four times before saying it. And afterward, He reveals it to the world. All the more so, a human being must think and study and investigate and clarify the words of Torah in his thought first well before saying it. And he said that now it is very easy to innovate in Torah because many holy compositions have already spread from tzadikim [righteous ones] in our generations. And according to the conversations and revelations that have spread in our days, it is very easy to innovate in Torah. Also, he said regarding what is brought in the holy Zohar, Rabbi Yitzchak opened and said, etc., and the like with other holy companions: Rabbi Yitzchak opened, as soon as he opened his mouth, immediately he would say and reveal Torah. And even so, it has already been explained that it is better to study and think [trachtin] Torah.