 The central point and holiest part of the Beis Hamikdash, was the Aron – the Holy Ark, that was placed in the Holy of Holies. The Aron contained the Luchos of the Ten Commandments and the original Torah scroll written by Moshe.
The Kabbalists teach that the Torah is the Wisdom of Hashem, and that He and His Wisdom are one. This is alluded to in the first word of the Ten Commandments, Anochi - “I”. Anochi is an acronym for; Ana Nafshi Kesavis Yehavis – “I Myself wrote and gave”. Chassidus reads this as saying “I have written and given Myself”, meaning that Hashem “wrote” His very Self into the Torah and that through the Torah we connect with His essence. The Ten Commandments were carved into the Luchos. Unlike written letters, where the ink and paper are separate entities, carved letters are completely one with the stone into which they are cut. This represents the complete unity of Hashem within the Torah. We connect to Hashem in this ultimate unity when we study and observe Torah not as something separate in our lives that we do, but as something bound to the very essence of who we are. Yet there is something even greater and more important than this highest level of Torah represented by the Aron. Join us tomorrow to discover what it is... ************************* The Daily Beis Hamikdash Thought is an initiative of the MAOR Centre, Melbourne. Invite your friends and family to subscribe: https://chat.whatsapp.com/CpJdBpFrhNRDsyqhdxM4SH
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