QUESTION:
What did our Avos learn in the “beis midrash of Shem and Ever”? And do we have any connection today to that level of Torah, now that we are after the Torah was given at Har Sinai?
ANSWER:
In the yeshiva headed by Shem, they learned about sheimos, holy names of Hashem. When the yeshiva was headed by Ever, they learned the Torah when it was yet in a state of ibur (pregnancy). Thus when Rivkah was pregnant, she went to the yeshiva of Ever to learn about the meaning of her pregnancy. Before the giving of the Torah at Har Sinai, the Torah was at level of katnus (lower-level consciousness) which is the level of sheimos and ibur. The Torah we received at Har Sinai was a higher level, gadlus.
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