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Page 38 – at about a 3rd into the page (line starts “hagbalah...”).
The soul is without limit, but the light from there is limited.
Koach hamaskil makes you understand. It precedes sechel, yet it is not sechel. It demands, “get a sense of this – things should be meaningful and make sense”.
Take day and night. The “naturalists/empiracists” will say “it is just the rotation of the planets – thus resulting in light and dark, and it is just your perspective to call it day and night!”
we say it is a reality. Day is an intended creation and night is a creation. Each one has significance and meaning. The koach hamaskil won't allow you to negate the significance of what is happening.
Koach ha maskil is already a state that evoved from the nefesh. It is the source for revealed sechel.
The nefesh provides sechel so one can deal with the external world and in this way the nefesh has a way to interface with the outside. This is the reason for the download of sechel.
This is the meaning of the nefesh being dressed in the body.
The soul enlivens the body. This is in contrast to the way the sun illuminates the sun. the body comes to life, since the soul reduces it's life force to the extent that it will relate to and enliven the body. This means that whatever happens to the body, the soul is a participant. The sechel is what enables the soul to be a participant in the body.
This is a hidden download, since the koach hamaskil doesn't acctually relate to the world. It remains hidden. It is there to provide for the sechel that is revealed and relates to the world.
There are 3 minds. Sechel eloki, sechel enushi and sechel habahamit – G-dly, human, and animal minds/perspectives. We translate from the G-dly soul to the human level to guide our animal mind.
When one sleeps his sechel goes up above. Also the sechel bahamit can be hidden – a person can cause harm to himself, an animal wouldn't do that.
When seeing the constant power of the sun, one's human mind, directs one to acknowledge the input from Above.
The next level is to say, “okay, the sun is only able to do what it does since there is input from a higher, Eternal Source. It is not the sun that provides light, He provides it to us through the sun. The Provider is not the sun, but Him. Before we paid attention to this we thought this is just a natural phenomena, it is an accident, but then we see, 'the sun couldn't provide this light on its own' there is a Power behind the sun. why does He provide the sun with this power, ''cos he wants us to have sun or 'cos he wants us to have light?' so now he lives in a different reality and the sun is just a tool of the One who makes it. Our light is from Him, not the sun. we have G-dly light. There is a G-dly element in there being day and night – it is not inadvertent! “
Sechel eloki also has a limit. Giving one's life is going beyond sechel eloki. The way the previous rebbe conducted himself was out side of halacha. He risked his life so that children learn could learn aleph – base!
The animal soul is affected by the light one shines on it from the G-dly soul via the human soul. The animal soul is taught to be under control. With his-hapcha the animal soul is completely transformed.
There is definition in which area one excels and even within that there is a limit in the degree to which he can excel. The point is that, in the koach hamaskil there is already a form.
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