Even a Simple Person Can See New and Wondrous Things

281 - Even a Simple Person Can See New and Wondrous Things Even a simple person—if he sets himself upon the book and looks at the letters of the Torah—can see new and wondrous things. That is, through gazing very intently at the letters of the Torah, the letters begin to shine and combine, in the aspect of “letters bulging and combining,” as our sages of blessed memory said (Yoma 73b). Then he will see wondrous combinations—new ones—and he can see in the book things that the author himself did not intend at all. And this is possible even for a simple person. For a great person can see this without effort, but even a completely simple person can attain and see new things as above—if he sets himself and gazes at the letters of the Torah. However, one should not set this as a test, for it may be that specifically then he will not see anything at all. Even so, it is possible to attain this—even for a simple person, as above.