Ninth Candle Teachers and the Incarnation of the Torah

This is just a thought that came after reading the many postings from Hez on the subject of Chanukah and the physics of light. There are many, many teachers who have the ability to give knowledge as an external teaching and there are many students who are quite satisfied with that increase in knowledge and of course there is value in all that. Then there are the great teachers of divine wisdom who have become the incarnation of the teaching. It seems as though they have given up all possession of knowledge in order to embody wisdom. Throughout the Bible we hear these teachers speak in the first person as though they themselves were speaking as G-d. Something has occurred internally at a very deep level for these teachers/prophets to speak with such authority and Truth. What have they discovered?

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Permalink Reply by Joanna Garrett on December 10, 2009 at 7:16pm

Hez, I am going to light the candle tomorrow and I will pray that G-d would bless us on SWW with a ninth candle teacher.

Are you really a construction worker in your other life?

Hezakiah Levinson said:

I knew I forgot to ad a quote when I posted. One more point about a person that is a tzedek:

Dubnow,H.ofCh:The good man should himself be the Torah,and people should be able to learn good conduct from observing him

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Permalink Reply by Joanna Garrett on December 10, 2009 at 7:36pm

That sounds very good. I'm the mother of five and I think it keeps me balanced, a little crazy - but firmly rooted in real life while persuing and resposning to the nefesh.

Do you have a teacher?

Hezakiah Levinson said:

Joanna Garrett said:
Hez, I am going to light the candle tomorrow and I will pray that G-d would bless us on SWW with a ninth candle teacher.

Are you really a construction worker in your other life?

Hezakiah Levinson said:
I knew I forgot to ad a quote when I posted. One more point about a person that is a tzedek:

Dubnow,H.ofCh:The good man should himself be the Torah,and people should be able to learn good conduct from observing him

Other life? Working for a living is everyone's real life.The only life I have is a real life. Yes, I've been working one end of construction or the other the last almost 30 years LOL There you go,chavera,a real view of observant Jewish life.Torah is a constant no matter what we are doing and teaching,writing and giving lectures on Torah is something I'm commanded to do in Torah . It's also something I love to do.