Beit Yaakov on Torah, Chayei Sara 3/בית יעקב על התורה·חיי שרה ג׳

4Rabbi Natan says, "The time of finding (Psalms 32:6) refers to Torah, as it is stated, He who finds Me finds life (Proverbs 8:35)." (Berakhot 8a:11) Torah hints to the specific commandment that is unique to a man in his root source. As every person has a unique commandment that applies to him in his root source, and he has to be more exacting than others about it, in all of its stringencies and its fences. And that way, his root source will be repaired. And it is like the matter that we have found in the Talmud (Shabbat 118b), "In what was your father more careful? In the commandment of tzitzit [fringes]." And the idea in this is that if someone is exacting towards a commandment that does not belong to his root source, and he is more exacting than need be about it due to his confidence that his root source will be repaired — it is about him that it is stated, Do not toil to gain wealth, etc. it grows wings and flies away, like an eagle, heavenward (Proverbs 23:4). And that is that God, may He be blessed, hides the depth of the intention that He has hidden in the act of the commandment. As if there was only the intention in the commandment, then why would God, may He be blessed, have commanded to actually do the commandment. It is implied from this that a person does not have knowledge in this world of the inner hidden words of Torah in the performance of the commandment, And this is like it is found in the Talmud (Sotah 21a), "Rav Yosef said, 'A commandment, at the time when one is engaged in it, protects and saves; at the time when one is not engaged in it, it protects but it does not save.'" And that means that at the time one is not engaged in it, there is nothing of the holiness of the commandment that remains in the body, since the body does not understand its root source. However, a commandment that belongs to a person, especially if he adds to it in its details and its understanding, then God, may He be blessed, enlightens him that he should understand the commandment in the light of the Torah. For all of the essence of the commandments is in the words of the Torah. So he will then have understanding into its intention, and see that the commandment's garment and performance is only in this world. And this is [the meaning of] that which we pray (in the Kedushah of the Order), "May He open our hearts to His Torah," with a vav [making the word possessive, His/his]. This hints to the words of Torah and the commandment that belong especially specifically to each person, according to his root source.