Torah – the Tree of Life
Juanita asked 5 years ago
If the Tree of Life is Torah, and the revelation of each mitzvah is likened to a seed from the Tree of Life that is planted in us to get us back to the spiritual state of Adam before the fall then really the spiritual meaning of the mitzvah seems to be more important than the natural mitzah - correct? It seems that if we discover the spiritual meaning of the mitzvah, what the parable stands for, then we would no longer have a use for the natural mitzvah - just as the new plant when it is starting to sprout has no further need for the seed coat. Why aren\'t the Rabbis seeking more to find the spiritual meaning of the mitzvahs?
1 Answers
Rabbi Yosef Karpman answered 5 years ago
Shalom,
Yes the majority of rabbis are busy with technical and legal/halakhic issues instead of purely transformational and spiritually inspiritational ones. That is how most are trained and that is most of the time what they’re contacted for.
Still we need both the inner spiritual dimension and the outer technical dimension to coalesce and inform our
decisions and our daily life.
best Wishes
R. Yosef Karpman
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