Crowns on the Torah
When Moses ascended to Heaven to write a certain part of the Bible, the Almighty asked him to place small crowns on some letters of the Torah. Moses said: “Master of the Universe, why draw these crowns?” God answered: “Because one hundred generations from now a man called Akiva will interpret them.” “Show me this […]
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Ludmila
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Oct 11, 2016 05:32PM
ok. totally confused by the post. sorry.
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This story is from the oral Torah of the Jewish people. Our Torah scrolls are hand written and some letters in the scroll are decorated with "crowns" or you might say flourishes. Our Rabbis (teachers) are forever looking at the Torah to gain greater insight. As I understand it, this post highlights our Rabbi's teaching that we as humans don't understand everything, i.e. like why some of the letters of the Torah have flourishes and others don't, but G!d does understand why and we can trust in that.
