Why the Torah Survives

During the musv service of Yamipur, [music] there's a section that describes the death of the 10 martyrs at the hands of the Romans. One of those 10 was Rabbi Khan. The medish, the oral law, teaches that he was executed on the charge of teaching Torah publicly, a capital offense under the Romans. The Romans wrapped him in the Torah scroll that he always kept with him, and they set him and the scroll of fire. To prolong his agony, they packed the space between his chest and the Torah scroll with wool soaked in water. Rabbi Khanina said, "The parchment is consumed, but the letters fly up in the air. The Torah is fire, and fire cannot consume fire. The body of a Jew is like the parchment on which the Torah of his soul is written. When the parchment is burned, the letters fly up to return to their source." When Mosha Rabenu when Moses came down from Sai from Mount Si with the first tablets of the law, he saw the people dancing around the golden [music] calf. As a result of that sin, the Jewish people were no longer worthy to receive the tablets. The letters took leave of the stone and flew up into the sky. Without the words of the Torah engraved on those tablets, they became too heavy for Moshe to carry. They fell from his hands and smashed to the ground. The mystical sources teach that 2,000 years before the creation, the Torah existed [music] in its primordial form as black fire on white fire. You cannot burn fire with fire. You cannot burn an idea. The Torah is the [music] idea of God. It is unburnable.