AyinBase with R' Paltiel Monday 8
Iyar 5772
Page
159 – about 10 lines from the top of the page
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starts, 'ha-neshamah....') For text, see link top right of the blog.
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The
adam/human being is made of 2 opposite elements that don't correlate.
And yet there is such a joining that the life of the soul actually
provides life at the level of flesh and nature. There's no natural
explanation for this.
And
the fact that the light of the soul should be revealed at all, is
contrary to nature! It is contrary to the way, 'you would expect
things to happen. The nature of light is to be part of the source
and not to come forth independently.
This
nature of the light applies to the kind of light that has a
relationship to its source, meaning it is one with the source.
And
the soul as it is above; its light is clearly cleaving to its source
and thus any revelation and involvement with the 'natural' life in
the body, is totally contrary to its nature.
The
light of the sun belong with its source. Not like the light of a
candle that illuminates by consumption of fuel.
The
body is not intrinsically alive. It lives because an element of life
has been brought to it by the soul. What is this life of the soul,
that brings life to the body? It is representative of intrinsic life.
It is like light inside the sun. It does not get used up and does
not have to be replenished. It is an intrinsic reallity and seems
to only belong in its source, not in a place where there can be
lifelessness (the body). The soul is so essential that it is a
wonder it is revealed at all!
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