Monday, March 14, 2011

Essential Participation p: 45


AyinBase with R' Paltiel p: 45 3/14/2011 Monday 8 AdarBase 5771

Page 45 – at the 6th line from top of the page.

We live in an upside down world. Physicality seems to be the most real. The truth is that the spiritual/purpose is the most real. It was made this way so that eventually truth can be seen to be coming from the world itself.

All that is done in the world has a trickle/imprint of the original ratzon/will that drives it and gives it reality. The will to live is not a reaction to a threat. It is a self-contained real spirit that wants to express itself. It is the initiator of everything. It cannot be identified. It is in a hidden state. A state of helem. This is like a name – it relates to the essence of a person, yet it is that which identifies a person as part of the big world. It is so significant to the person that it can revive him from a faint. This is because deep in his soul being part of the world and being made by Him is the most significant and all his activities are rooted in this ratzon.

Helem means not that something is lacking, but that they are in an essential state. In this world it may seem that someone does an activity due to a secondary reason, but in the ratzon the participation is essential.



The Baal Shem Tov says a Jew may land up on a desert island due to a whole chain of secondary reasons, but the truth is that there was Devine intent that he land up there to purify that place.

You not a 'stranger in a strange land', your nefesh recognizes a significance in your activities. The real sechel is that, 'I want to understand'. The background to the understanding is the ratzon. If you are sure the needle is in the hay-stack then it is possible to find it. The ratzon is what tells you its there.

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