On Simchat Torah, we conclude our year-long reading of the entire Torah, and then immediately begin it once again.

What is the kabbalistic meaning of this endless circle of Torah?

Here are the sources referred to in this episode:

When we've learned the entire Torah, then we understand that we actually don't know anything at all.
https://www.sefaria.org/Me'or_Einayim%2C_Bereshit.48?vhe=Me%27or_Einayim_--_OYW&lang=bi

Creation could not endure unless Compassion (Rachamim, aka Emet and Tiferet) preceded Judgement (Din) -
https://www.sefaria.org/Genesis.1.1?lang=bi&aliyot=0&p2=Rashi_on_Genesis.1.1&lang2=bi

The greatest thing Moses did was breaking the tablets! -
https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.34.12?lang=bi&aliyot=0&p2=Rashi_on_Deuteronomy.34.12.3&lang2=bi

The beginning of Hashem's Word (Torah) is Truth (Emet) -
https://www.sefaria.org/Psalms.119.160?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en

Truth (Emet is Hashem's seal, i.e. identifying mark -
https://www.sefaria.org/Shabbat.55a.12?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en

Before Creation, Truth says don't create humanity because they will be full of lies, and Hashem "throws Truth to the ground" (Daniel 8:12), but when the angels protested that Truth is Hashem's own seal (i.e. identifying mark), Hashem relented and said "Let Truth sprout from the earth" (Psalms 85:12) -
https://www.sefaria.org/Bereshit_Rabbah.8.5?lang=bi

The real nature of Truth is to bring close, and not to distance;
The last letters of the first three words of the Torah spell "Emet", and as soon as we end the Torah (with the breaking of the tablets), we begin it again, which demonstrates that we don't know anything at all, and we must never let ourselves be distanced or pushed away by what seems to be the Truth, rather that we have to begin again in every moment because the actual, real, deepest Truth is that Hashem's Compassion knows no limits, and so we should always begin once again to pray -
https://www.sefaria.org/Likutei_Halakhot%2C_Yoreh_Deah%2C_Laws_of_Interest.5.27?vhe=Likutei_Halachot:_Yoreh_Deah_1&lang=bi

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