What is shown to me p: 48

AyinBase with R' Paltiel p: 48 4/11/2011 Tuesday 8 Nissan 5771

Page 48 – about 12 lines from the top of the page (line starts: eits hadaas...)

The class began with a discussion about makor/source. In a secular view 'everything made itself' and all energy in the world is negative – for self protection. It is all reactive. There is no true want/desire. Rabbi recalled a conversation with someone who left yeshivah and went into secular thougth, and he said, 'today with psychology we have discovered that the love between mother and child is just selfish'.

The reason they see it this way is due to their perspective.

We don't say, 'I see it because it affects me, I feel it because it affects me, I take it because there is a resevoir'. We say it is given. Sight is what is being shown to me. Everything is given to us from above.

The water we get in the faucet is the same as what is in the reservoir. But in the pipe it is in a totally different level. It flows and covers in the reservoir, but in the pipe it flows in one direction downwards.

Kedusha receives its energy from the willingness of the Giver – via the pipeline. This is the relationship and the proper channels. Klippa just says 'I'll just go and get it from the reservoir'.

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When we breathe, we open our lungs and He puts it into us. Air is a gift that is constant.

If you recognize an element of something being given, then there is a difference between the reservoir and the faucet...

Every word of chassidus is the opposite of the secular world view.

In kedusha all comes through chochmah – he says, 'I chose the King alone. So if I'm going to have water, it will be the King's water and His gift' – he doesn't just want the resource – that's not life – he wants the King Himself.



The Tree of Knowledge has good and bad. Althought daas/knowledge is in kedusha/holiness, it comes as a ha-araah. This means it can lose it's sense of light/good. Since the soul is dressed in the body, one can be mistaken and see life as only a nervous/electrical system.

Emunah/faith is the essence of ohr. Emunah is where we have the essence of the neshamah, but it is not formatted. Torah is an essence – life itself, and cannot be severed from it's source, though it is also enclothed in the world it is not true enclothement.