Don' get too excited

Aeter with R' Paltiel 7/26/09 Sunday 5 Menachem Av 5769

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Atzmius of malcus is is in etzem and has no need to go thru a tzimzum – it is entirely self fulfilling. The king is everywhere and everything is contained in the king.

There you can have a king without a people and he is a full king.

The inyan of name is a subtle concept – on the one hand it has not significance to the person. It is just a reference on the other hand this reference is to the entire person – to him himself.

The fact that the wold has reached a level of sophistication and technological development represents not the keili/computer, but the reality itself of the unity of the world. It is all rooted in He – He is everything and everything is Him.
Principle of malchus is that the presence of the king is not limited to what and who he is.

Normally with ana emloch and the machal of the king we think of him that he incorporates land and people. This is true of all levels up to ana emloch, but there a tzimzum is needed to create a world. But the utzmus of malchus does not need to be expressed to know that it is everywhere. It is there by virtue of what he is – not like on a lower level where you have a difference between the king and his reign.

There is not place that is devoid of atzmus and there is nothing that atzmus does not have. The space of the cup potentially contains everything that can be placed in this space – this space has in essence everything that can be place there. Atzmus is the very basis of existence – hence it is everything and everywhere. Relationship of malchus and the king is very unique (in contrast to other qualities like wisdom – which can be described as an entity – so when you say the melech understands everything these are 2 entities) – malchus is inseparable from the melech. Malchus is different in this way from all the other sphirot.

Now we are coming to a conclusion of this inyan... this is as mentioned in the Haggadah – gilui shchinah – and the rebbe asked, but that's just what comes down below? And he answered this by bringing that etzem hamalchus is also called shchinah! The shchina that comes down connects the “down below” to the etzem of each higher level back to etzem malchus itself.

Romemus – exaltedness – just as a chocham gadol does not get involved in pettiness and you can't get him excited about a small idea – this is because he sees the same piece of wisdom that gets you all excited, from a different perspective. He sees it from an essential perspective and the small thing, “goes without saying” and saying it diminishes the situation by implying that this is something that needs to be identified by itself. It shows narrowness of mind.
Malchus of einsof has everything not because it has everything, but because it has a full perspective.

When this malchus was revealed in Mitzraim everything by butel.

Usually we say yirah and ahavah are from our perspective – our level of appreciation. In this way yirah is deeper, which is from far, because “i dare not come close and I don't grasp nor appreciate his quality..” so in yirah you don't get to know the inyan – it is bitul and you know it is above you. This is yirah chitoni, since you don't experience it through and through.

Then there is a yirah pnimi – to really appreciate the awesomeness – to relate to it – this is yirah pnimi and has to involve an experience of ohr.

We saw before the running to the king and the being with the king. The king is usually in his palace and the yirah of the king is throughout the kingdom. Coming into the presence of the king – does the yirah dissapate? (For a shoteh yes, he involves himself with himself in the kings presence.) The yirah doesn't dissipate - this is yirah pnimi – and his self is butel.

Pasuk says yirat Hashem is life – yirat hashem hi chaim. To have the sensitivity of G-dly presence and that he lives in Hashem's world – and that this is what the world stands for and this is the significance of all his activities - that is yirat hashem. If a person has a grasp of this level of sensitivity he is alive – that is being alive.



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