{"id":749,"date":"2011-07-10T09:46:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T13:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=749"},"modified":"2011-07-10T09:46:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T13:46:35","slug":"ramchal-on-the-role-of-torah-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2011\/07\/10\/ramchal-on-the-role-of-torah-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramchal on the role of Torah (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ramchal \u00a0speaks outright of the makeup of the Torah in Ma\u2019amar<\/em> HaIkurrim<\/em>, Derech<\/em> Hashem<\/em>, in his lesser-known Derech<\/em> Chochma<\/em>, and in Da\u2019at<\/em> Tevunot<\/em>, and more esoterically elsewhere.<\/p>\n

He focuses on the makeup and structure of the Oral Torah in Ma\u2019amar<\/em> HaIkurrim<\/em> where he addresses the need God perceived there to be to conceal things in His Written Torah which would then be revealed at length in His Oral Torah in various ways. And he then discussed the various allusions contained in the former which were fleshed out by the latter, both ritual and theological, and the Rabbinic enactments derived from them.<\/p>\n

He makes the points in Derech<\/em> Hashem<\/em> that Torah study is the single best way for one to draw him- or herself close to God as well as the world at large (1:4:9); he discusses the ways that the Torah acts as a guide to determining God\u2019s will for us at any one moment (4:2:1); and he asserts that it is God\u2019s predominant agent for allowing His emanations to affect this world to various degrees, depending upon one\u2019s character, demeanor and intentions when delving into it (4:2:2-7).<\/p>\n

Well see what he offers in Derech<\/em> Chochma<\/em> and Da\u2019at<\/em> Tevunot <\/em>next time.<\/p>\n

(c) 2011 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman<\/p>\n

Feel free to contact me at feldman@torah.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ramchal \u00a0speaks outright of the makeup of the Torah in Ma\u2019amar HaIkurrim, Derech Hashem, in his lesser-known Derech Chochma, and in Da\u2019at Tevunot, and more esoterically elsewhere. He focuses on the makeup and structure of the Oral Torah in Ma\u2019amar … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}