A confession: I use AI. A lot. It drafts my emails, organizes my calendar, and once suggested a Purim costume I’m still recovering from. It’s brilliant. It’s fast. And it just proved a point the Tanya made 230 years before the first chatbot said hello.

Chapter Five of Tanya — the foundational book of Chabad philosophy, published in 1796 — makes a bold claim about what happens when you study Torah. It’s not information passing through your ears on its way to nowhere. When you wrestle with an idea until you truly grasp it, your mind wraps around the idea and the idea wraps around your mind. The knower, the knowing, and the known become one. And since Torah is God’s wisdom, you’re not just learning about God. You’re becoming one with His........

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