'Speak his own language' p: 50

AyinBase with R' Paltiel p: 50 5/16/2011 Monday 12 Iyar 5771

  

Page 50 – about 6 lines from the end of the page (line starts: ha-atzmis... )

We are looking at how when the creation is from a reflection, then the creator serves as the source/makor, not the essence.

When a rav teaches his student, he doesn't create the student by teaching him. The teacher develops the student's sechel.

Makor means it is only a source, but it doesn't extend further down. The lower entity is unto itself. The sechel he gives to the student is sourced in the rav. Why is the rav motivated to teach the student? The teacher has his own reality and is not motivated to tell another. Yet there is also a universal element to his sechel, and it is verified by going through hashpaa/mentorship of another. The sechel becomes complete by being told to another.

The teacher illuminates an area that is outside the source. Like the sun illuminates a dark world. And the world remains dark, but illuminated.

So too the teacher give the student the means to understand the sechel, but not the sechel itself. He is mashpia sechel to a place that does not have revealed sechel. He gives a mashal/metaphor – this is a way to 'speak his own language'.

The teacher's own sechel is a source/makor to what he is now mashpia.

The compelling element that brings the rav to teach/mentor is that he himself gets complemented by this process! He gets a real sense of the universality of the sechel.

The real feature of the soul is not that 'it gives life to the body', since it doesn't know lifelessness. The soul unto itself has nothing to do with body and lifelessness. The term 'life' is meaningless, since it knows not lifelessness. It is essence.

But there is also the element of it being able to enliven a body. When it performs this function, it is not the presence of the soul it self, it is only a ha-arah, a functional element. It is not the soul's essence that does this work. The essence remains unto itself, but it becomes the source for this activity. 'I don't go there, my faculties will accomplish this.'

This is the difference between child and student. The child is created by part of the father, 'going there' – a piece of the father creates the child.

When the rebbe said 'go put tephilin on jews you find in the street' people has a thousand questions. The answer to them all is that tephilin is so essential that they can find their place there too!

The Rebbe is at the highest level of scholarship, but he would get together with his chassidim in a big hall and physically urge on the singing. Why? This is because his vitality is so great that it is expressed at all levels.

A chassid was walking in the streets of Paris and watched the people in a bar, going on getting wasted, getting louder, he watched for a while and said, 'it is off color, but it is merry!'