Monday, February 1, 2010

“More than meets the eye”

AiynBase with R' Paltiel 2/1/10 Monday 16 Shevat 5770


Page 11 - 11 lines from top of the page - “kuli”.


As discussed yesterday, there is a depth to chochmah, which means that even the keli of chochmah is light / life.


The keli does not have an aspect of metziut. It does not have a presence outside of its presentation of the ohr. It does not have an outside presentation of itself.


This is the truth / light as it is unto itself.


Like sight – we see “more than meets the eye” - we see the reality of why it is here, beyond just what is here. This is like seeing the object as it is contained in it's inception. This is the essence, not the presentation.


Ein is the way chochmah perceives chochmah, it cannot understand it. But the inyan of chochmah, koach mah, perceives beyond that – to perceive what the kesser / crown is. This gives us a recognition / knowledge of the reality itself – we can actually know the reality of creation – the world is real to us since we know it from it's inception. Is the world real? As just a presence, no, but as a creation that He made, then it becomes very real.


This is the principle of the hamshacha mochin chadashim. This is a different level of mind. It is a flow of the essential shem mah.


This is by means of the Torah. Torah comes from chochmah and through it flows shem mah itself. This is the way / derech of Torah. It is a pathway by means of which there is a flow from above to below – it bypasses the whole seder hishtalshalus. It provides an increase that defies the seder hishtalshalus, which works according to light in vessels. Torah on the other hand reveals the essence of the crown. At the same time this chochmah is called a koach, since it is not a gilui of ratzon itself, which would not allow for existence of the world at all.


Torah is a new way. It brings the essence of kesser, but it does not defy world. It comes to us in pathways, instructing us how to treat everything in the world, but don't necessarily make sense in the world – they are above world.

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