AyinBase with R' Paltiel Wednesday 17 Iyar
5772
Page
160 – at top of the second paragraph of the page
(line
starts, 've-inyan...') For text, see link top right of the blog. Or
for text right click here.
We
are saying that there is a 'super reality' in the soul that causes
all the faculties to come forward into revelation and be connected
with the body. There is no greater descent – to come down from an
essential state into a functional state.
What
is the spiritual aspect of the soul's connection to the body? How
does this occur? There is the process and there is the result.
The Rebbe explains that this represents the supremacy of the form
over the material.
In
simple terms the tzurah/form is the spiritual, and the
chomer/material is the physical.
Chomer
is a 'real tangible' presence. And tzurah is 'a concept'. A sack
of gold is real. The ownership is intangible. It does not affect
the material. And the material affect can be overpowering, 'hey,
take the gold, no-one sees you...!' But instead we say let's choose
the tzurah and not lie.
Let's
say you force yourself not to steal and take someone else's goods.
This is not an illustration of 'hisgavrut of the tzurah al ha
chomer', since there is an ongoing battle, not a transformation.
The
goal is not forcing the body to act in a certain way against its
will/nature. The force of the soul over the body is more
transformative.
The
body becomes a vessel for the soul. For example the hands are not
just moveable body parts. Each has 5 fingers and they divide the
power of the hand to allow for refined and fine expressions... if
you wear a mitten your hand is protected, but its range of expression
is limited... it is as if the hand is no longer a vessel for the
spiritual faculty...
each
person has a unique finger print. If he cuts his finger, after the
healing the fingerprints return unharmed – the material is
completely under the control and direction of the form. The material
has no 'interest' of its own except to be a vessel for the
tzurah/form.
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