08 Becoming Torah Literate: Investigate The Torah
How Difficult Is This Method of Torah Study?
Regardless of one’s intellectual or spiritual shortcomings, the world of the Creator’s Torah awaits investigation. Turning to him and his instruction brings the functionality of the divine nature to one’s life. With a few essential materials and the mastery of a few basic skills, one can quickly be on the path of discovery. The Creator shall personally guide the reader through his Torah utilizing his embedded numerical comprehension strategy.
Some Essential Materials
Acquire an interlinear Torah having a Hebrew text which shows the maqaphim (Hebrew hyphens). A list of the ten foundational numerical principles.
Some Essential Skills
1. Learn the Hebrew alphabet.
2. Learn the numerical significance of a maqaph (hyphen).
3. Learn how to count the Hebrew words, excluding the maqaphim.
4. Recognize and count the maqaphim.
5. Learn how to count the Hebrew words, including the maqaphim.
6. Learn how to apply the numerical principles to the Hebrew verse.
Understanding A Divine Encounter
Many through either ignorance or rebellion are unaware that they have encountered the Creator. One can bring the horse to the water, but he cannot make him thirsty. Perhaps, it is that thirst for the Creator, which constitutes the foundational aspect of a divine encounter.
Our ancient forefathers witnessed many divine encounters as they made their way to Mount Sinai. Still, upon personally experiencing the profound voice of the Creator, they elected to have Moses continue the conversation, and they would receive the words of the Creator second-handedly. As time quickly revealed, they did not have a heart that desired to listen to the instructions of the Creator. A lack of desire to do the Creator’s will was not the case of their forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in whose merit they had achieved freedom. Those men had a desire to listen for the instructions of the Creator and walk in his path of understanding. In most cases, the divine encounter is no thrust upon one but commences with a thirst for the Creator.
Some Time Well Spent
The thirsty ones will spend more time at the well, and they shall drink and be satisfied. A glass of water will not sustain one for a lifetime, nor will one divine encounter. Life is an ongoing daily encounter. The Creator is our third parent. Our existence begins with him, who has given us a living soul. Our Father, the Creator, takes parenting seriously, and if one understands that concept, then the faithfulness of the patriarchs shall consume him.