What is the Torah
The Torah(Scripture) is the Constitution of the Kingdom of Heavens, it determine the attitude, actions, behavior of its citizens, those of us who chooses to live by it, while living here on earth are called the Nation of Yisrael. It contains the Covenant that the King of the Kingdom (EL YAHWEH) have given to the people of Earth to learn, practice or bring to perfection in their lives while they are in the flesh. This will in turn make them good citizen of (heavens)Shamayim.
The Torah contains the blueprint, for the Heavenly Kingdom. The curriculum that the soul of man need to learn, while experiencing a fleshly experience. If it was not for the Torah, day and night, the ordinances of the heavens and earth would not have been appointed.
The first thing our Heavenly Father (EL YAHWEH) created was the Word, according to the Word, He Created the Heavens, and by the Word He Created the World.
The Torah is a dispenser of Truth. Truth is what EL YAHWEH says He will do. 2 + 2 = 4 is not truth, it is an accurate statement, but it is not truth. Truth is anything EL YAHWEH say will happen, it will happen. When we walk in Truth we are walking in the Light. That is why on the First Day of Creation, The Elohim separate light from darkness, right from wrong, truth from a lie.
The privilege of accepting the Torah from EL YAHWEH, is to carrying out its precepts, obeying its ordinances and supporting its statues, belongs to Yisrael, the called out, the Set Apart ones. Those of us who manage to perfect the Law or the Word in their lives, are the one who will rule and reign with the King of the Universe El YAHWEH.
To embody Torah in a physical sense, is to enable the People of Yisrael to develop their spiritual potential from the morass of the mundane to the eternity of the spiritual. The earlier generation of the nation of YISRAEL, the spiritual essence of Torah was clearly understood, they could sense what El YAHWEH wanted of them and act in accordance.
The highest level of spirituality was attained by EL YAHWEH, who kept Torah, or perfected it in His life. That is why HE said that He came to fulfill Torah, to do His Father Will. He came to show us to true purpose of the Word, which is to make perfect sons..
Great men such as Abrahan, Isaac, Jacob, and Moses who obeyed Torah, before it was in its written form. How did they know the law? Did their own spiritual maturity dictated what they should do. If I may be so bold, it was their own holiness code, that create the ability to know what deed would maintain that set-a-part or holy state.
El YAHWEH and His Word, Torah, are echad(one); Yahushua Messiyah said if you see Me you see The Father. The Lofty heights that Yahushua and His disiples attained brought them as close to El YAHWEH as human may attained, They became human manifestations of the Torah and the spiritual understanding of how they were to be clothed in righteous while on earth.
Given the exalted nature and the inexpressible essence of Torah, it is understandable that to study the commandment is of a different order than the performance of it. One require the Spirit of Understanding in order to study Torah and the Spirit of Knowledge and Wisdom to perform it. Proverbs says that the commandments is a lamp and the Torah a light.
What is the physical difference between a lamp and a light? The lamp contains the oil and wick that support the light; without the lamp, there would be no light, but a lamp without light is cold. So is Torah without the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit).
El YAHWEH'S Wisdom dictates that all Yisrael ascend the spiritual ladder through the performance of the Commandments of Torah under the leadership of the Ruach(Spirit), just as a lamp makes light possible, the Holy Spirit makes Torah understandable.
The highest level that humanity can attained reside in the study of Torah in the light of the Spirit of Understanding, the Spirit of Knowledge and the Spirit of Wisdom. This is the process by which mortal-being unites with the Thought and Wisdom of El YAHWEH.
Psalms 33:6 says that it is through the Torah(the Word) the heavens were made. Heaven and earth in all their fullness, became the clothing for the Torah of El YAHWEH, which infuses creation, and without which the earth could not continue to exist.
The most exalted state a man may attained is when he realize that the true essence of all life is to fulfill the Will of El YAHWEH, which is the Torah, and he focus all his resources to attain it; that silver and gold only blind our spirituality eyes to the purpose of his mission.
The Torah defines sin and transgression, grace and mercy, what is an acceptable substitute for payment of a sin and transgression. It teaches us that grace is receiving something you did not deserve and mercy is not receiving something you did deserve.
As we read through the Torah, for the: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th time, what we get out of it depends on if we ask for the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy "Set Apart" Spirit) in particular the Spirit of Understanding, that will help us to come into the right spiritual understanding, depending on our state of spiritual Knowledge.
Although its origins are rooted in deep antiquity, from the time of ancient Babylon, the wisdom of Kabbalah has remained virtually hidden from humanity since it appeared more than four thousand years ago. To this very day, only a few know what Kabbalah really is.
For millennia, humanity was offered a wide variety of things under the name “Torah”: spells, curses, and even miracles - all except for the method of Scripture itself. For over four thousand years, common understanding of Torah has been cluttered with misconceptions and misinterpretations.
Therefore, first and foremost, the wisdom of Torah needs to be made clear. Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) provides the following definition in his article "The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah":
This wisdom is no more and no less than a sequence of roots, which hang down by way of cause and effect, in fixed, determined rules, interweaving to a single, exalted goal described as, “the revelation of His Godliness to His creatures in this world.”
In simpler words, there is an upper, all-inclusive force, or “the Creator,” controlling everything in reality. All the world’s forces descend from this comprehensive force. Some of these forces are familiar to us, such as gravity or electricity, while there are forces of a higher order that act while remaining hidden to us.
Torah holds the map or the knowledge of how these hidden forces are structured, and the laws by which they influence us. It teaches us (throuhgh the Holy Spirit) how to develop a sense of these forces, and finally, discover their only purpose – to bring us to the revelation of the Creator, the all-inclusive law of nature, while living in this world.
The Torah can be interpreted by four fundamental methods of exegesis that lead to the Kabbalah, to the sphere of Sod, mystery or what is called Pardes, the Paradise of divine knowledge.
The four consonants of the word Pardes (P R D S) themselves designate these four methods, namely:
P - peshat, the simle interpretation of the Scripture, aproching it by all the ways available to elementary reasoning;
R - remez allusion to the many meanings hidden in every phrase, every letter, sign and point of the Torah;
D - desash, the homiletic exposition of doctrinal Truth, including all possible interpretations of doctrinal truth, including all possible interpretations of the Torah;
S - Sod, mystery, initiation into hokhmah, the divine wisdom conceled in the Torah or Scripture and called, insofar as it is a teaching, Hokhmath Hakabbalah, the esoteric wisdom of the tradition.
This fourth method, which teaches the mysteries of the Torah (sithre Torah), Consists essentially of the spiritual exegesis and application of the first chapter of Genesis, (Maaseh Bereshit, the work of the Beginning) and of the first chapter of Ezekiel's prophecies, containing the vision of the divine throne as a celestial chariot (Maaseh Merkabah, the Work of the Chariot).
But besides these fundamental teaching concerning the emanation from the universal principle found in Creation and reintegraion into it, all of the Torah or Scripture can serve as a point of departure for the exegetical method of Sod.
The ten Sefiroth, numerations or determinations on the CREATOR, play the part in this method of supports for contemplation, whereas the divine names represent the operative means of uniing the Kabbalist "the teacher of knowledge" who invokes them according to initiatic rules, witH the Light of the Holy Spirit, the Real Presence of YAHWEH.
Kabbalah is the doctrinal essence of the Torah, the repository in the heart of Judaism of the Mysteries hidden since the beginning of time.
YAHWEH has revealed these mysteries in many traditional or religious forms; but this diversity these mysteries in many traditional or religious forms; but this diversity is only the expression of the infinite richness of the One truth and in no way affects its transcendent and immutable unity.
The Kabbalah is therefore nothing but the Hebrew branch of the universal tree of deifying wisdom, which is discovered at the base of all orthodox ways leading to pure and integral knowledge.
This knowledge of divine Truth was given to the Patriarcs of Yisrael and to their chosen disciples and was finally crystallized at Mt. Sinai.
This knowledge
