Monday, August 22, 2011

“Essential Pleasure” p: 52


AyinBase with R' Paltiel p: 52 8/22/11 Monday 22 MenachemAv 5771 

Page 52 – 8 lines from the top (line starts: murgash...)

We are dealing with pleasure. Not of the body, but soul pleasure. In our world there is a big focus on 'personal experience' – the level of personal desire here is a reaction to 'nothingness' in contrast to real pleasure which is a reaction to a revelation of Elokus/G-dliness.





We know the world did not make itself, but was created and is thus a G-dly creation. The Creator is hidden from us. We don't see Him. Yet we know with our sechel, and live up to the reality that we cannot touch and see. This is manifest in the oneg/pleaure of the person. It is a pleasure that has no reason, nor comes in response to some lack. A pleasure without tangibility.  

There is a sense in the person that the truth of his own presence is beyond his sechel. It comes from beyond him. It is not something that he created. This is like that hands of Moses being held up.

The second level of pleasure is higher. It is essential. Doing torah and mitzvot draw down this essential pleasure.

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