Thursday, January 27, 2011

The Power of Truth – Not, “what's in it for me?” p:38

AyinBase with R' Paltiel p:38 1/27/2011 ThursdayNight 22 Shvat 5771

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Page 38 – at lower quarter of the page (line starts “ukmo talmid...”).

Sechel it self, essentially is beyond keilim/vessels. On a super functional level, sechel is the search for the pure truth. Why does it do this?

This is like thing stand not because they are on the earth, since the earth itself hangs in space depending on nothing. Things stand because He holds them up. Sechel searches truth in the same way.

Do I see Him holding up the world? Since I don't have another answer, I say it is Him holding it up? No, one focuses in and sees the earth hangs on something that is not a metziut – something that is not a metzius we can't relate to, but for chochmah that's not a problem, chochmah says, “ahh, now we're talking about the truth itself...!”

Only something intangible can be infinite. One sees, this in intentional, beyond the world, from it's source. He didn't make it a certain way 'cos otherwise it wouldn't work. He makes/made it this way by intention.

Chochmah sees the G-dy presence, not just a way out of a conundrum...!

light shows how something is unto itself, not how it affects me. In darkness I know only how it affects me. How do I get to relate to a true presence other than by own, so true that it can trump the sense of touch. Light reveals the true presence that alerts me to the truth that there is a Creator.

Sechel looks for the light – looks for the reality. It doesn't just wanna know, “what's in it for me?” It wants the pure truth. This is chochmah that leads to elokus.

By the proper warfare and dealing with the nefesh habahamit (our animal soul), it is impressed and transformed. Eventually you tell him, “this is what you also want!” And he is receptive to it.

You have to weaken the animal soul. If you just satify it's desires, it won't be responsive to the question, “don't you want something real?”

there is a level where sechel cannot serve the purpose, since there is a “student, that makes wise his teacher”. The student doesn't know what's going on. The student is dedicated, but doesn't get it. The teacher has to find a way to reach him. The student elicits an actualization of the sechel beyond sechel, that will reach the student's essence.

This leads to revelations unlimited.

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