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We see that even angels were not suitable for torah – they were too pure. Something high/pure needs a coarse place to rest.
What is higher and lower? We discussed the supremacy of light from darkness. We experience light that is really only a reflection of the real light. We have light that reveals to us the objects, but there is a light that is beyond this function.
The real supremacy/yitaron of light is the level that does not reveal activity in the world, but is a revelation if it's source.
The higher something is the less of a metzius it is and the more it is pointing to the truth and it's source.
A wedding is not the joy of two people finding it each other, it is a new world coming into being. With open eyes one senses this, even though the physical eye sees just the wedding hall, food and napkins...!
The excitement of a wedding is the permeating of truth. The higher something is, the more it presents it's source, but in order to do that in this world it has to come down to the lowest level. The structure in this world is upside down – and so things come in a reverse order. Essence is not a worldly concept. Essence is true in-and-of-itself. Essence is above world – it is G-dly.
Etzem can only presented by the physical. Torah comes in the form of kabalos ol - “do this deed”, which in this world is very difficult since it bypasses the usual channels of thought, speech and action.
It works in reverse order. You do a deed, which channels a G-dly power, which enables you to see the content of the deed. The deed leads the thought...
“Everything you do affects everything you think, and all you think affects all you do...”
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