When Sefer Devarim succeeded, wiping out all the secrets of Torah, in the days of king Yoshiyahu, its predecessor fell into the hands of competing priests, an underground of kinds. After the return from Bavel, it had become part of the P scroll.
The secrets of Hashem were sacred in the conservative hands of P, which only added and did not subtract. Though D survived, through similarly conservative hands of R, it became subjugated to P, Midah K'Neged Midah. And the reason lies in the elevated nature of these writings, way above the level of D, or P, or E, or J. It is above the level of EJ, which I said belongs to the world of Yetsira. This scroll, though, is a representation of the Torah in the world of Beriah, the world that allows almost no evil.
The writers of D did not recognize the true nature of the scroll that they replaced. It was, no doubt, too secular in their perception. It is therefore striking that it survived in the priestly P scroll. About the P scroll it says in Yirmyahu 8:8:
אֵיכָה תֹאמְרוּ חֲכָמִים אֲנַחְנוּ, וְתוֹרַת יְהוָה אִתָּנוּ; אָכֵן הִנֵּה לַשֶּׁקֶר עָשָׂה, עֵט שֶׁקֶר סֹפְרִים
"How can you say, 'We are wise and the law of Hashem is with us?' But behold, the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie."
See, they have the Torah of Hashem, but they had made it virtually unrecognizable, with lies of scribes. This was already so in the days of Yirmyahu, the prophet of D. How many must be the additional lies of the P-scribes! And what does the above say about D?The above is a postulate; the result of a deep and honest look into the Torah. It is a vision, my vision. It is a narrative, my narrative. This is my way, where is yours?
סְ֭בָבוּנִי פָּרִ֣ים רַבִּ֑ים
אַבִּירֵ֖י בָשָׁ֣ן כִּתְּרֽוּנִי׃
אַבִּירֵ֖י בָשָׁ֣ן כִּתְּרֽוּנִי׃
- תם הבלוג -
