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Chasidut su Deuteronomio 25:15

אֶ֣בֶן שְׁלֵמָ֤ה וָצֶ֙דֶק֙ יִֽהְיֶה־לָּ֔ךְ אֵיפָ֧ה שְׁלֵמָ֛ה וָצֶ֖דֶק יִֽהְיֶה־לָּ֑ךְ לְמַ֙עַן֙ יַאֲרִ֣יכוּ יָמֶ֔יךָ עַ֚ל הָֽאֲדָמָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ נֹתֵ֥ן לָֽךְ׃

Avrai un peso perfetto e giusto; avrai una misura perfetta e giusta; affinché i tuoi giorni siano lunghi sulla terra che l'Eterno, il tuo DIO, ti dà.

Mevo HaShearim

This is not to say that the written Torah, which is the primary portion of the whole corpus, is, God forbid, lower than the others. Rather, it means that it is garbed in more ‘clothing,’ including the clothing of Asiyah. Thus, if a person has the lowly inclination to steal and cheat, the Torah has descended even to these inclinations and has become garbed in them, and has been revealed in “You shall not steal, you shall rob, you shall have honest measures and weights, etc…”254Deuteronomy 25:15. Actions, not concept concepts, were revealed in these commandments—be they actions of the hands of actions of the heart, like loving God and Israel, reverence etc… These went down to the actions of the person and are perceived in them. After this, the sages of the Talmud came to reveal more to us, for the supernal light is enclothed in many layers in the written Torah and covered even in stories and narratives. They revealed the light, refracted as Yetzirah and Beriyah, stripped down and bare from more of these clothes. They somehow managed to allow the light of Yetzirah and Beriyah to be revealed even in this world, in even the human intellect. For already in the Talmud there are already intellectual explanations, accounting for every commandment through casuistry and reasoning. They already knew, therefore, the meaning of the commandments and had no need to record the oral Torah. But [they did so in order to] innovate and reveal the intellect of the Torah.255Thus, the words of the Torah are in fact expressions of divine existence, simultaneously refracted and ‘garbed’ in the symbols and realities of all respective levels of existence.
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