“Being Torah”
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Good morning, LORD!
But what good does it do to call you “LORD”—even in all caps—if I don’t actually do what you say?
Help me to love you today with my obedience and with my silent clinging. I am hoping that even the desire to love you in obedience and silent clinging pleases you. Perhaps this desire is only the tiniest seed of love, but I will not despise even the tiniest of seeds.
To Expound Torah and to Be Torah
This is what Rabbi Leib, son of Sarah, used to say about those rabbis who expound the Torah: “What does it amount to—that they expound the Torah! A man should see to it that all his actions are a Torah and that he himself becomes so entirely a Torah that one can learn from his habits and his motions, and his motionless clinging to God, that he has become like Heaven itself, of which it is said: ‘There is no speech, there are no words, nether is their voice heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.’” (Martin Buber, Tale of the Hasidim, vol. 1, p. 169)
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