TheYeshiva.net - Torah Or Chayaei Sara - Confronting The Darkness Through Torah Study

[Music] there's a very famous Marshall which the Reb gives in the he quotes the previous rebas having given this Marshall in the um the context that the re uses is the difference between and the mush goes like this two people walk into a dark room the room is complex with much furniture and um chairs and other kind of furnishings and of course there are a series of doors which lead you into other rooms so you're in this very dark room and you want to get out so of course if you have a match you strike the match you can see the whole room you have a natural sense of the perspectives of everything meaning to say you see the relationship between the chair and the tables and the sofa and the couch and the other uh pieces of furnishings and you can also identify a door you go to the door and you leave if a person walks into that room and doesn't have matches so then they're forced by circumstance to tap and they tap and tap and tap and tap and tap and tap they encounter a chair they encounter a table they encounter what seems like an opening that turns out to be a window then they counter a door which turns out to be a dud or goes into a closet until they finally encounter a door that allows them to leave the room now of course the purpose of this Marshal is to illustrate that when you can see things things are very very clear and two advantages exist namely you see the perspective or the relative relationship of the various different aspects found in the room and secondly you know exactly where the exit is while when you're tapping firstly you have no sense of perspective of the relative place of the various components in the room and you have to feel your way around and secondly you have to grope and grapple until you find the exit however there is something to be said for the Tapper versus The Seer in other words there is an advantage to one who doesn't have Clarity and is forced by default to tap and tap and tap and tap and to identify a chair identify a table identify a a sofa and a couch and so forth until he finds the exit and that is that because of the darkness because of the lack of clarity you are forced to notice the kind of nuance the kind of subtlety the kind of detail that you simply would never see if you could see it's like the difference between the blind person and the seeing person blind people compensate for their lack of vision with uh with feel and you give a blind person a pen or a piece of jewelry or uh even a piece of food they will appreciate with touch subtlety texture Nuance that a seeing person will simply never be able to identify because they see it directly they see it clearly and they see it simply so put this muscle on a low shelf keep it readily accessible and available because it is incredibly relevant to this in my