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The oral Torah is higher than the written Torah because it is transmitted from mouth to mouth, that is, through common Screens between teacher and student. If you wanted to put it in words, no one would understand, these are not words, it’s impossible.
When the people went into exile, they began to write everything down because it was necessary to somehow save something. There was such a desire and a law was passed to allow recording.
The Torah is an instruction for the correct mutual inclusion and unification of people, in which the Creator or life is manifested, which, in principle, is the same. Like when cells in the body are connected, life manifests itself in it, so when people unite with each other, the vital force is manifested at the next level.
There are people who have attained this and described it in their writings. Therefore, everything stated by them is called the written Torah.
There are things that cannot be described. They are revealed only through internal contact between teacher and student, which is called mouth to mouth (mi peh el peh). This is the oral Torah.
The resolving power depends on to what extent you’re integrated with friends. From a smaller Kli, one has less resolution because they’re less incorporated with the matter under discussion.
Baal HaSulam says to devise for yourself tactics to come to love each other. It doesn’t matter which route my son chooses we go: at the end of it, we’ll arrive at the school. So, what yields love of friends is holy.
As much as the friends can be important and fill your heart, the Creator can, and from this foundation you can relate to everything.
You’ll understand this from the bond with your ten. There’s just no spiritual existence outside of the ten, like there’s no human existence in less than a multicellular organism. The Creator doesn’t relate to you, this wisdom is not about you, you’re not considered until you’re spread like butter among your ten. In the center of the ten, there’s someone to refer to, to instruct. That’s why everything is so confusing. How does an amoeba best behave at the symphony, get a job, get married? Well, those actions aren’t relevant for amoebas. That’s why the stages of Kabbalah study are (1) learn about it (2) practice it in the ten (3) united with your ten you’re the created being that this wisdom is about, so then it becomes increasingly comprehensible and practicable. Now, at each degree, I’m again an amoeba that has to become multicellular. So, I have to sort out for myself what my work is as an amoeba. I have first to connect to my ten. I can do this from all my corporeal states since it’s the work in the mind and the heart.
It’s true the Greeks learned from the Africans. But Kabbalah originated a bit to the Northeast of Africa, in Babylon, and then moved back toward Africa. Babylon was a melting pot of peoples from all over, including those from Africa. So, certainly some of the original Kabbalists had dark skin. Kabbalists were not a certain race but a collection of different kinds of people who were only later classified as a people, according to their spiritual designation. Later, they moved closer to Africa, and some ended up all the way in Egypt. Afterward, they moved to what is now the land of Israel, and then spread out again, some living in Northern Africa, especially Egypt and Morocco. Egypt, Greece, and Israel are all neighbors on the Mediterranean sea – one could get from Greece to Egypt or Israel even in rowboat in about 40 days 🙂 – and at some point, in that region, the Greeks certainly learned from the Kabbalists – because at that time Kabbalists were willing to teach anyone who wanted to learn.
