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I found a fascinating post by Rabbi Micha Golshevsky here. The discussion is revolving around ten ways - for the ten midos/sefiros - to have Torah Nefulah, fallen Torah.
It is really very interesting and reading the post I couldn’t help thinking how hard it is for a person to be really pure in his intentions and in his actions (thinking, speaking and acting) all the time.
Everyone has something that is close to his heart, some aspiration that is not necessarily a bad thing but one that he or she holds too or is attached too to such an extent that he starts to distort the truth so as to satisfy his or hers attachment.
Some of the examples that are brought on the post are of so called “positive aspirations” the problem is just that the attachment was too strong and that led to twisting the truth or interpreting it in a way that is supportive of the desire.
Can we really be constantly aware that our desires and preferences are not causing us to distort the Torah by stressing an interpretation that we like or in the way we do our studies.
It is natural to be human but this is exactly the reason that self inspection should go hand in hand with the learning of the Torah the more precious the knowledge the more work we should do on ourselves to make sure we let is influence us and not the other way around.
