Finding The Light Of The Torah

Of this matter it is said the beginning of wisdom is [music] the fear of Hashem. For the fear constitutes the deep understanding of the heart [music] enabling one to detect the light of sweet wisdom and deep understanding in all its pleasantness. This fear participates [music] in the study of any alicik issue, blending with knowledge and understanding in order to polish it, enable one to love truth and to forsake all crooked and erroneous ways of thinking. In so many words, the is telling us in just a matter of a few lines that if you're going to learn Torah, but at the same time, you're going to escape the teachings of fear of heaven. You're going to escape the conversations of fear of heaven. And worse yet, sometimes you'll even go against it. You'll mock it. You'll ignore it. You'll tell people not to do it. You'll tell yourself not to do it. Then surely the Torah that you have is it's not from heaven. It's not from heaven. Why? Because a person that understands Torah is a person that loves truth. And there is nothing more true than the sk the scary nature of this