Wednesday, December 23, 2009

A tree falls and a leaf turns

AiynBase with R' Paltiel 12/23/09 Wednesday 6 Tevet 5770



4 lines from the top of page 6.


Yesterday we looked at the inyan of atzilus, that 'tho malchus it is part of the essence, as opposed to the level of hisachdus, there is an element that could be viewed as a separate entity and then is absorbed.


Ther purpose of seder hishtalshalus is to show that even those elements that seem to be separate, are from the same source.


The element of ohr guarantees that the flow is only in the proper place.


All this is accomplished by chochmah, since chochmah is an element of ohr pnimi / inner light.


Ohr ein sof unites with the chochmah, to pay attention and “supervise” how the ohr is drawn down into the inner element of each sphira.


Pnimi, means “inner”. If the hashpaa is by midah and gvul, so how is it pnimi? The idea is that the ohr permeates the sphira/koach through and through. In everything there is the pnimi and the makif. A human action has the detail, and the overview of why he is doing it – pnimi and makif. (that is why in klippah there has to be an ulterior motive – in kedusha he does it since, “it is the right thing” - the makif is beyond him and true.)


In kedusha there is an intrinsic value in everything.


There is a subtle distinction between the bitul of, “this is the truth because it is the truth,” and doing something because, “it is a good thing”.


Chochmah draws all the “details” and gives it to binah. But the connection itself remains in chochmah. In the chochmah is sensed not just, “what I see” but also “the essence itself”.


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