502. If Man Wins, the Creator Is Happy
“He who sells sadness, etc., but the Creator is happy.”
The question is, How is this similar to a seller? After all, the seller does not keep the object, while the Creator, even though He gave the Torah to the people of Israel, the Torah still remains with Him. The Torah is not something corporeal, where we can say that if He gives it to the created beings, the Torah does not remain with Him.
Some want to interpret that this refers to the verse that we say about the Torah, “It is not in heaven,” that it was given to the people of Israel to determine the rules.
We should interpret that we understand the Torah in two ways: 1) The quality of the Torah, whose light reforms him, as in “I have created the Torah as a spice,” to mitigate the evil inclination. 2) The quality of the Torah called “The eye has not seen.”
The intention of the Emanator is for the lower ones to receive pleasure. Yet, man uses the Torah in the opposite manner, wanting the Creator to receive pleasure. He receives this power from the Torah, from that spice. It follows that he is fighting with the Creator, meaning that the Creator wants man to receive pleasure, and man wants the Creator to receive pleasure.
Thus, he uses the Torah in the opposite direction from the seller. It was said about this that the Creator says, “My sons defeated Me.” That is, they fight against the will to receive that the Creator imprinted in their hearts, where if the man wins, the Creator is happy.
It follows that the Torah of the Creator is according to the purpose of creation, and “His Torah” is when man uses the Torah with the aim of the spice, when he takes the Torah in order to please the Creator. This is why the Torah is named after man.
The Torah is named after its use: If a person wants to receive the Torah with the Creator’s intention—to do good to His creations—so the creatures will enjoy, it is called “the Torah of the Creator,” when the Torah follows the line of the Creator. If a person takes the Torah so as to have the power to bestow, this is regarded as man’s intention, where man wants to bestow contentment upon his Maker, and then it is regarded as his Torah.