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We call the world to come, the world of truth. Does that mean our world is a world of falsehood??
We call our Torah – the Torah (wisdom) of truth. Are all other wisdoms, wisdoms of falsehood? The signature of G-d, His identity is “Truth”. And, everything else, is false?
Let’s say, you saw someone going into a store, and a minute later some murderer asks you, if you saw that person? Is the proper thing to say the truth, when you know what the outcome will be, or, is the right thing not to tell the murderer the whereabouts of that person?
If you denied seeing the person to the murderer, did you lie??
When telling us to say, we didn’t see that person, our sages say, one is allowed to modify his words not to say where the person went. They do not say, it is allowed to lie in these circumstances, but that it is allowed to “change” ones' words.
That’s because what the person did wasn’t a lie, and a fraud. What the person did by modifying his words was a solid truthful act to save the person from being killed and drawn in to an untruthful and dishonest situation.
Falsehood, is something which has no permanency to it. What you see, or hear now, is temporary for the time being and therefore not true. After the truth and reality is revealed, or the situation changes, it may not be there in 10 seconds or twenty years. It appears solid, and gives the impression as being forever, but in actuality, it’s not true.
Truth on the other hand are those things that are exactly as they purport to be, and will not be any different in the future. No tricks, no optical illusions no deceptions, now or forever.
That is why the world to come, is a world of truth, because, it exists now and forever. This world only on the other hand, appears as solid when in truth all is transitory.
That is why our Torah – wisdom, is “a Torah of truth and eternal life is implanted in it”, because, it is a wisdom that is, has been and will forever be sustainable. All other wisdoms to one degree or the other evolve and change, what is today and appears like the last word in science is apt to change tomorrow. Not so with the wisdom and instructions of our G-dly given Torah.
That is why ONLY G-d can sign in “Truth”, because He is eternal. He was, is, and will forever be. Nothing else can claim that entitlement.
This was the war of the Maccabees against the Greeks.
Maccabee is an acronym for, “who is amongst the strong like G-d”? NOBody. The last letters of those four Hebrew words, spell the ineffable name of G-d.
That is why our Torah – wisdom, is “a Torah of truth and eternal life is implanted in it”, because, it is a wisdom that is, has been and will forever be sustainable. All other wisdoms to one degree or the other evolve and change, what is today and appears like the last word in science is apt to change tomorrow. Not so with the wisdom and instructions of our G-dly given Torah.
That is why ONLY G-d can sign in “Truth”, because He is eternal. He was, is, and will forever be. Nothing else can claim that entitlement.
This was the war of the Maccabees against the Greeks.
Maccabee is an acronym for, “who is amongst the strong like G-d”? NOBody. The last letters of those four Hebrew words, spell the ineffable name of G-d.
The Greeks prided themselves on sports (Sparta) and the Olympics. For them, it was only, all about the strength of the body and what meets the naked eye. A beautiful form, great abs and bulging muscles.
Where are those Greeks and its empire today?? Everything physical no matter how great and how strong, is temporary and transitory. Here today, gone tomorrow,
The Maccabees who were so many more times smaller and weaker, overcame the mightier, better organized and trained Greeks. The Jewish people after so many years of persecution are today as strong as ever. That’s because as small as the truth may be, if it is true, it will always outlive anything that is temporary.
The goal of the Greeks was to eliminate the spiritual G-dly values from the Jewish people. They didn’t mind the practices, as long as they were bereft of any spirituality and authentic Jewish Law. Not like other haters, they didn’t mind there were Jewish people. They just didn’t want this public display of G-dliness and spirituality.
Our entire identity, is with a G-d of truth, through His Torah and commandments of truth. This is what the Maccabees fought for. The re-dedication of the Temple where sacrifices would be offered to the eternal
G-d.
The goal of the Greeks was to eliminate the spiritual G-dly values from the Jewish people. They didn’t mind the practices, as long as they were bereft of any spirituality and authentic Jewish Law. Not like other haters, they didn’t mind there were Jewish people. They just didn’t want this public display of G-dliness and spirituality.
Our entire identity, is with a G-d of truth, through His Torah and commandments of truth. This is what the Maccabees fought for. The re-dedication of the Temple where sacrifices would be offered to the eternal
G-d.
In Hebrew the word for falsehood (Sheker), each of the letters have a very flimsy one leg to stand on, and they fall. The word truth (Emet), each of its’ letters have two legs and a solid bottom of support.
The world tempts us with all kinds of Greek Hellenistic self-absorbed pursuits. The only paths that are lasting, eternal and make it to the world to come, are the ones that are a product of and an extension of TRUTH.
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