“What Keeps It All Together?” p: 57

Photo: Kevin Moshe Rubin

AyinBase with R' Paltiel 10/27/11 Wednesday 29 Tishrei 5772  

Page 57 – at the middle of the page (line starts: “hit-orarut...”)

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as discussed yesterday, doing 'something' and ratzon/will was to focus in on the element of 'will'. This is more than, 'if he wants to do it then he does it... and if not... not', that's why it is called hischadshut – novelty/innovation.

All that a person does in the world involves multiplicity – many units of time, space, action and material. But the real focus of any activity is one point. This is the one element that is expressed and accomplished by means of these different units.

The difficulty is to see how this one point is being translated in to a project with multiple componenets.

What keeps it all together? This is the arousal of the will. At the level of will there is no multiplicity.

The translation of the point into the environment of world – into the level of multiplicity is his chadshut/innovation. Innovation is the transition from 'pure unity' to 'expressed unity'. Then the sechel/mind comes in and says, 'how do I accomplish this? '

The sechel does not judge the ratzon. It is subservient to the will, but it has to make sense to it. And sechel will find a way to make it happen – find a way that it will make sense.

The novelty is that this point can now be translated in components. Showing of the ratzon on the world level is innovation/novelty.