0496 - Torah is Higher Than Intellect (Seichel) Not Against Intellect

00:01 There's a certain expression that the Rebbe said by Farbrengen, which I think is a very important one, but I don't remember which Farbrengen he said it, and I never saw it in print. I don't remember seeing it in any Hanocher. I don't remember seeing it in Likutei Sichos, but later you see a Neriyah. The fact I didn't see it, or I don't remember seeing it, is no Neriyah that it's not there, but I don't remember. But it's a very important expression. The Rebbe said these words, "Torah is lamai lamanaseichol. Torah is abanit hepech hasseichol. Torah is higher than seichol, but Torah is not against seichol." Which I think it means Torah will never say that one and one equals three. It's hepech hasseichol, which means also luchore, that if they should find someplace in the Torah where it says one and one equals three, it must mean something else. It must mean something deeper, but not kipsute, because the Torah would not write something that's hepech hasseichol. I'll give another example, which I think would be a good example. The posek says that why was Chava called Chava? Because she was ein kol chai. She was the mother of all living things. What does that mean? She was the mother of all living things? She wasn't the mother of all living things, the mother of all the dogs. She was the mother only of all human beings. But the posek says ein kol chai. If it would mean literally, then it would be hepech hasseichol.

01:15 You can't say that. So obviously, that's not what the Torah means. So the Torah must mean all living human beings, all human beings, not all living things, even though it says ein kol chai, everything that's alive. So from there, we have to know that whenever we talk about the Torah, Torah would tell us things which are higher than seichol. We can't understand, but Torah would not say things which are against seichol. That's the lotion the Rebbe used. Torah is lamai lamanaseichol, abanit hepech hasseichol. And I would like to find that word the Rebbe said when the Rebbe said it to see behemshoch to what it is, and maybe we could get more information about it. But this is what I remember the Rebbe said.