Tuesday, June 14, 2011

“Real Sight” p: 45


AyinBase with R' Paltiel p: 45 6/14/2011 Tuesday 12 Sivan 5771

Page 45 – mid point of the page (line starts: bechinat ha ein ha eloki...) 

Yesterday we discussed chochmah/wisdom and how it is the 'nothing' – a faculty without a perspective of its own. This is like the eye relating to the truth of what is visible. Yet it is ein – not the actual thing. It is what is being observed, not the truth itself.

The level of ein/nothing contains elokus/G-dliness and hence is able to create worlds.

The mashal/metaphor of sight is very accurate and useful in understanding chochmah. Sight is the connection between you and reality. Sight is 'an experience', but the object seen is the main thing.

The animal sees but doesn't have a sense of reality. It sees as a form of touch. Only a human, really 'sees' and does it via sechel. This is a negation of evolutionary theory, where the object is just functional, whereas the reallity is we see the true presence. This is the presence of the Creator, not the created.

The animal says, 'something is hitting my eye, and I better watch out – is this my lunch or will I be his lunch'. While sight does have a physical process, for a human it is based on sechel/mind.



Man sees, 'the truth of it', not 'I see it'.

This class/discussion has been to grasp something of ein ha-eloki – the G-dly nothing...

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