Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Parent and child

AyinBase with R' Paltiel 6/8/10 Tuesday 26 Sivan 5770

Page 31. Around a third from the top. Line starts, “kuli...”

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Sechel is closer to the nefesh than all the other powers.

But we said all the kochot get directly from the nefesh, nevertheless they are getting it “al yedei ha sechel”? Nothing happens in the nefesh that is not under its control. Light flows effortlessly from the sun, yet it is volitional in the nefesh.

This explains that everything that has the element of nefesh has sechel – nothing is instinctive, all is intentional. Sechel is the keli klalus for the nefesh because the essential revelation of the nefesh has this element of truth (and midot are not direct kelim for this). It is sechel that identifies that there is an outside.

In the presence of sechel the midot stand in awe and bitul. The sechel is sensitive to a deeper element of nefesh – the element of truth of nefesh.

Sechel seeks the truth rather than personal expression.



... וחיי עולם

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