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Page 40 – 3rd line from the top of the page (line starts “haketter...”).
We have seen how hashpaa ruchni is limited and hashpaa gashmi is unlimited.
There is another difference. In hashpaa of sechel is does not bring about mehus sechel in the recipient. Like in the case of the mentorship of the teacher and student, if the student has his own sechel then he can accept and absorb the input of his teacher and this will lead to a great increase of the light of sechel. To the extent that he can realize and find a devar sechel on his own, in the manner that his teacher works...
If he's a bar sechel on his own, why does he need the input of his rav/teacher? And if the effect is dependent on the fact that the student understands, so where is the increase in light of the sechel? Why not say, “the more one learns, the more there is ohr sechel? What's the rav's role?”
Haspaa means, effectuating, giving... but the student has to understand on his own. There are the senses of sight and touch. In order to understand one has to be able to relate to what he is learning. He needs some prior connection to the material. If one learns on his own, then everything is essentially based on that which he knows – he understands only by means of what he can relate to.
The hashpaa of the rav is different. Imagine taking water in a cup. This is like learning on your own. He doesn't take the truth of the matter he uses the vessels that he is accustomed to using. But when you bring the cup to your lips, you experience the water itself. In order to do that you need something else to feed him. Hashpaa is like this, he puts his own vessels aside and he allows the rav to teach him. Now the student takes the sechel as the rav gives it, rather than use his own vessels...
then the student is able to take in a sechel for which he has no vessels. It is unlimited in terms of the context, since he applies his havanah/understanding 'bit by bit', allowing for a great increase of light, which he would otherwise not have attained since he lacks the overall vessels for him. The student still has to understand what he is being fed and digest it.
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