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“Source” of something is the place where something ceases to be a separate entity. Everything is tending towards its source is because, there is a spark of reality in everything – and this reality is its source. Thus it is drawn to a state where it would be more real.
How can it be that the world is suspended in mid space? What is its reality? It does have a sense of reality – its reality is not just to be earth, but to fulfill a purpose in creation. So it is in its element – bli mah – ratzon a boreh.
In everything is this spark, this oneg, this oil. The principle of oneg is this essential purpose. The special principle of oneg is that it needs no explanation. Everything in creation is realtive, but nothing is absolutely relative, since it has this G-dly spark.
Chochmah is the all – encompassing sphirah, through which is drawn the essential pleasure, into the whole of creation. Chochmah is a perception of the reality as you see if from the outside – this is like sight. But when you have the oneg itself where is the place for chochmah? Within the atzmus ein sof there is the elemnt of chochmah - “looking at it from the outside”. The “fullness” of essence is that it can also reveal itself. The ultimate test of truth is that it is true within itself and also in its absence. There is a fundamental difference between true and truth. This truth cannot be absent.
Ein zulato – even if you go “outside” the essence it is also essence. Chochmah can relate to the essential lights – essential pleasure. This is everything and nothing else is needed.
The real truth is that the experiencing of sight is because we are in the very same world. This is like looking outside, but not outside the bigger reality.
King David said, “your decrees are like songs for me...” Being that the torah is the intermediary through which the element of pleasure is drawn into all creation and this is the life that sustains all creation, thus all the worlds and downflow of life depend on torah, since it is the source of all of them.
Even though tzimzum is a negative element, the truth however is, that there is no such thing as absence of light – the tzimzum itself has an element of chayut and oneg. This is why King David was consoling himself in his suffering, by saying that since all is sourced in torah, “what value does any worldly element have in comparison to torah,” and thus he was rejoicing in torah...
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... וחיי עולם
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