![]() A desert is not associated with any particular culture or form of living. Such a work must be taught and transmitted in a desert. Oblivion shuns its pages."Ībsolute sublimity. ![]() In three thousand years it has not aged a day. ![]() Other books you can estimate, you can measure, compare the Bible you can only extol. It is a work we do not know how to assess. Its lines are so monumental and at the same time so simple that whoever tries to compete with them produces either a commentary or a caricature. The Bible shows no concern with literary form, with verbal beauty, yet its absolute sublimity rings through all its pages. "Set the Bible beside any of the truly great books produced by the genius of man and see how they are diminished in stature. "Why does the Bible surpass everything created by man? Why is there no work worthy of comparison with it? Why is there no substitute for the Bible, no parallel to the history it has engendered? Why must all who seek the living G-d turn to its pages? Professor Abraham Joshua Heschel put it this way: Once you start defining it, you'll have the problem of appreciating it. Torah is pure for each person in each generation who studies it, and one must approach it like a desolate desert to fully appreciate it. This probably means that in order for one to fully appreciate the Torah in its entirety, one must come at it with a blank slate, without placing any preconceived notions on it.
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