Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Reexamine

I used to have a Rosh Yeshiva who would say that our biggest enemy is the Ganenet [Kindergarten teacher]. Why? What did Morah --- do wrong? 

It is not her fault but ours!! We learned things when we were little and remain with the same understanding our whole lives. Torah is so deeeepppp! How can we remain with the same understanding when we are adults that we had when we were 5? So EVERY PARSHA should be relearned every week with greater depth. So too the meaning of the holidays etc. etc. 

Writes the חובות הלבבות GEVALLLDIKKKKK: 

והארבעה ועשרים, שתחשוב עם נפשך ותתבענה על כל ענין שנתיישב אצלה מעניני ידיעת האלהים ותורתו ודברי הראשונים וחידות החכמים ועניני התפלות אשר ידעת מעת נערותך וברוב ימי גדולך ולמודך תחלה כי צורות הענינים הדקים אצל מי שהכרתו חלושה אינם כצורתם אצל מי שהכרתו חזקה וכל אשר תוסיף הכרת האדם יוסיף בירור בענינים, 


THE TWENTY FOURTH: (child's eyes) That you make an accounting with yourself and claim from yourself on all matters which have been established in you regarding knowledge of G-d and His Torah, and the words of the ancients, and the metaphors of the wise, and the contents of prayers, which you started learning in your childhood and youth. For the picture of a complex matter by one whose understanding is weak is not like the picture for one whose understanding is strong, and the more a man increases understanding, the more he will increase clarity.