Wednesday, July 20, 2011

"What am I looking at?" p: 49


AyinBase with R' Paltiel p: 49 7/20/11 Wednesday 18 Tammuz 5771

Page 49 – about 9 lines from the top of the page (line starts: umestayem...)

Phil/Pesach in Joshua Tree
The kav/line, by which the world is created, takes different forms at different levels.  

The reflection of the soul, the way it is found in sechel/mind, is not the way it is at a higher level of ratzon/will etc.

How do we see elokus/G-dliness in sechel? Not directly, but by deduction. But this is not the whole story, since you do not recognize the Creator at all, you just acknowledge that the world didn't create itself.



The reason we recognize that the world did not make itself? One asks, 'why am I here? What is this all about? What am I looking at?' there is a deep sense of truth in the intellect that demands one asks this question. My soul has a true/G-dly element embedded in it and it sends this message. It is not just the shortcoming of the world that asks the question, but the positive statement of the soul that an element of truth must be found.

When a person opens his eyes and sees the natural process of the world – he sees that it is a living world, not an accidental world, a world of significance.

It is a lifeless perception of the world to say that 'it created itself'. One's intellect does not accept this.

The element of concealment is due to the fact that the presence of G-dliness in this world is just a ha-arah/reflection. 'There is an effect of the real truth on the place where it is not'. World's have G-dly presence, but they have an element of metzius. The light is revealed according to the vessel.    

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