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Ein Ayah: Rahav represents that a person at first is elevated in a manner that he recognizes his importance. It can be a confidence of sanctity, as the pasuk describes: "He raised his heart in the paths of Hashem" (Divrei Hayamim II, 17:6). But then he becomes even more elevated, and he reaches the level that is represented by "on the mountain," referring to the mountain upon which "Hashem desired to dwell" (Sinai (see Tehillim 68:17)). Sinai was a low mountain, from which we learn that Hashem is with the downtrodden. This is the reading from the inside, which has precedence over that which is read from the outside.
We now analyze saru and varas. The intellectual information in all elements of conception that Hashem opened up for man begins with the tendency toward doubt. The next stage is to reach a supposition of truth, which is related to the idea of deciding something based on a majority, as the pasuk says: "Follow the majority in your decisions" (Shemot 23:2). While it does not create a certainty, it is a step in that direction, which the spirit can follow after leaning toward the holy content of truth which becomes ever brighter within him.
These progressions are hinted at by the acronyms of "saru" and "varus." Saru stands for safek (doubt), rov (majority), vaday (certainty). However, that is only the order if you read it from the outside, in which a person thinks that he will progress to knowledge and remain at that point. However, the reading from the inside is based on the higher light of humility. A piece of knowledge, when it becomes more revealed, turns into something that one only knows in a means of supposition based on probability of truth. Then one gets to the highest level and realizes that the most important things in life are known only on the level of doubt. A person then decides with a light of "I am a silly person and do not know; I was like an animal in relation to You" (Tehillim 73:22).

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Dealing With the Hatred of Powerful Nations
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influencing Our Families, Cities & the World
Ein Aya Shabbat 5,14
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Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit

Payment for Not Clearing Warehouse On Time – part II
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Daf Yomi Sanhedrin Daf 54
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