The Wisdom of Imperfection:
The Healing Medicine of Pnimiyus HaTorah
Pnimiyus HaTorah is what I understand as the wisdom of imperfection. Kabbalah as a whole, Chassidus, the Zohar, the Arizal, the Baal Shem Tov, the Gra, the Ramchal, the Rashash—all of it can be gathered under one heading: the light of imperfection. Not light that apologizes for imperfection. Not light that says, "You fell, now behave yourself." But light that teaches us something far more radical: we were never perfect.
