T101 PNC - Bikrov Alai Merayim — Torah/Yah/Seichel Defeats Enemies (2 segs)

Opening verse: 'When my adversaries draw near to me to consume my flesh, my oppressors and my enemies against me — they have stumbled and fallen' (Psalms 27:2). The verse 'With Yah, God is the Rock of worlds' (Isaiah 26:4) teaches that through the Torah — called 'reishit' (beginning) — God created the worlds (Bereishit Rabbah 1:1). The letter Yud of the divine Name represents the seichel (intellect) of the Torah; the letter Heh represents the five books of the Torah, corresponding to the five outlets of the mouth: lips, teeth, palate, tongue, throat. Through these two letters — Yah — the world was created (as the Talmud teaches: with Yah He formed the worlds). The adversaries who approach to consume a person's flesh are the forces of the Other Side that try to separate a person from Torah and divine wisdom.

The resolution to the adversaries' attack: when the seichel (intellect/wisdom) of the Torah is connected to its letters — when the Yud is united with the Heh — the enemies stumble and fall by themselves. The person does not need to fight directly. Rather, when he cleaves to Torah with both its inner wisdom and its expressed letters, when he unifies the intellectual dimension with the practical verbal dimension of Torah study, this itself defeats the klipot and spiritual enemies. They 'stumble and fall' because they have no foothold when Torah is complete and unified within a person.