�lifnim mishurat hadin�, which means �beyond the letter of the law�

[Marta]

Ethics of the Fathers will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. 36 But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. 37 All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of him who sent me,

[Marta]

John 6:51)

As noted, in an article, flaming fire is better translated as "fiery truth" from esh, meaning "fire" and dat, meaning "decree," or "knowledge". The idea of fiery truth is related to the concept of the divine logos, or the "word of God" the underlying creative reason for all things in the universe (the hellenistic idea of the logos, dating from the time of Heraclitus (6th cent. BC), perhaps later influenced the personification of the Word of God called the "memra" that appeared later in the Aramaic Onkelos). Some have interpreted the phrase as "fiery faith", since the revelation of the truth (i.e.,Torah) was always meant to serve that greater end...In the Torha scroll, esh and dat are joined together, appearing as one word (i.e., eshdat), a word that otherwise is translated "foundation." In other words, the foundation of God's kingdom is revealed in the passion to do his will, to honor the Lord as King by exercising a "fiery faith."

The Torah is written black fire on white fire, "which is interpreted to mean that both the letters and spaces between them constitute the "whole of the Torah." Another way to say this is that the "white fire" represents God's Spirit, who give the black fire its foundation and breath." The fiery faith