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You Shall Not Have in Your Pocket a Big Stone
170. You Shall Not Have in Your Pocket a Big Stone
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“You shall not have in your pocket a big stone and a small stone.” Even [stone] is called “faith” (stones to weigh with). This is considered small, which is above reason. But at the same time, you should say that you have a “big stone,” meaning that you have reason. This means that what you do is not like the rest of the world, but that you have a solid basis, which is Gadlut [greatness] and not Katnut [smallness], meaning without basis and a complete Even.
There must be a “small stone” but it must be “complete,” meaning sufficient to keep the whole of the Torah and Mitzvot based on the “small stone,” and only then is it called “complete.”
But if it is “small,” and makes you do only small things, it is not considered “a complete stone.” Where is it big and where is it small? If you have a small basis, it is considered small with respect to itself. But when you have a “big stone,” a large basis, you consider yourself great, meaning that you are great. And a “complete stone” is when he is awarded private Providence.