Words of the kabbalistic mysteries of the Torah are celestial matters which no eye has seen besides that of G-d. They are wondrous things.\r
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This is because the secrets of Torah teach us about the Essence of G-d and the aspects of that essence which He bestowed in the upper worlds - things which astonish and frighten those that hear of them. These things depend only on pure faith, not on reason - i.e. only on the pure faith that a person holds that these are words of truth.\r
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Thus, the secret aspect of Torah is called the way of truth for two reasons: First, it is intrinsically true, for it is the truth of the Torah. Also, it is the reason behind the mitzvot, so that without the reasons provided by Kabbala, a great number of mitzvot cannot be ascribed to any root or reason. Thus, through the way of Kabbala, a person finds satisfaction with all of the Torah and its mitzvot.\r
About the essence of the Kabbala, it says at the beginning of Pirkei Avot, Moses received the Torah from Sinai and gave it to Joshua. In other words, it was transmitted as a tradition orally from one generation to another.\r
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