# Torah 16 - Rebbe Yochanan

> מקור: https://rabenu.app/books/kitvey-en/16/torah-16/

a)	'Sometimes ceasing to learn Torah is the way to keep it' (Menachot,99), for someone who wants to engage in learning Torah and serving G-d constantly will find it impossible to maintain this cleaving to the Holy One and His Torah without a break. One has to cease occasionally. Now and again one has to let the mind go out from the realm of Torah in order to engage in mundane things so as to prevent the powers of confusion from the Other Side becoming too strong and nullifying one's wisdom completely. Consequently one has to rest sometimes. However, when Meshiach comes then one won't need to cease from one's intense attachment to G-d.

b)	The tzaddik who learns intensely sublime wisdom has eyes that radiate like

the sun. This is an aspect of "our eyes shine like the sun and like the moon."

Sometimes they shine like the sun when we concentrate on holy wisdom, and at other times they shine like the moon when we stop ourselves from letting the mind wander in holy wisdom, for the moon doesn't shine other than when the sun disappears. In the future, through the two Meshiachs (Yoseph and David), we will be redeemed from all the nations, who stem from Esau and Ishmael, the two clouds which cover the eyes (Zohar,3,252). Then one won't need to cease from cleaving to G-d and the verse will be fulfilled which says, "The light of the moon will be as the light of the sun" (Isaiah,30).