On the one hand how can anyone be silly enough to predicate himself on chart diagrams and shapes without being aware of the underlying fundamental information from which those movements emerge... but on the other hand, you have to be a fool to close one's eyes to the overall universal patterns that do emerge in technical analysis across the broad canvas of stock companies throughout the market.... obviously then what is really needed is an integration of both together.
And so I feel really the same way about the approach to Torah learning and Kabbala.
Cute equational sequences (e.g. Chesed= Avraham= Right Hand etc) is just silly if you don't really understand the fundamental connections of "why" and "how"
...and yet to bury one's head only in the localized פשט כפשוטו and refuse to search for broad patterns in Torah is just as foolish.
[just one example of a billion: the mentioning of the word בור in the Torah uniquely by parshiot of Yosef and the Parsha of Nezikin where ונפל שמה שור או חמור , Shor being also Yosef as we know. To close one's eyes from looking for these kinds of patterns is downright foolish]
One needs to understand how the kabbalistic concepts emerge from the rest of Torah
...otherwise you end up explaining to someone how you lost your life's savings because of a cup-and-handle diagram. :-) Not very admirable to say the least.
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