23/06/2024
Daily Thought
Unapproved Truth from Chabad
There is a difference between intellectualizing and knowing Truth.
In both, the mind eventually finds an axiom, a dead end where it must surrender and say, "This is so because it is so."
If you are simply intellectualizing, then it is up to you to accept or reject those axioms--because the results are beautiful or because they are unpleasing; because they are elegant or they are convoluted; because they fit so nicely into everything else you know or they are just too radical.
Ultimately, your conclusions are dependent upon what you want to do and what you don't want to do, who you are and who you want to be, how you see your world and how you want your world to be.
Truth doesn't await your approval. Truth is something you accept despite what you want or don't want to do.
In truth, Truth is often very inconvenient.
In learning Torah, we seek truth.
