AyinBase with R' Paltiel Tuesday 24 Elul 5772
Page
174 – start of the second paragraph – about 8 lines in
(line
starts, 'yesh sphirot...') For text, see picture below.
The
overall point – even though the overall light – 'light by
definition' has the quality of essential light / ohr atzmi, and
represents, 'coming from essence', and coming and affecting
effortlessly, yet there are levels in light. And we say three
times 'holy' – 'kadosh, kadosh, kadosh!'
Starting
'bottom – up' in the world of 'atzilus' (the lowest level that is a
presence of light) – [our world – biyah – is also a creation
with light somewhere under all the concealment, but it is a presence
of vessels, not light. You see a man walking – and that is the
presence you see – his intention is concealed] – there is no
presence except for the source.
Atzilus
is like chochmah/wisdom – and chochmah has not presence except for
the moment it flashes forth from its source – it is like a spark.
It is united with its source.
What is a vessel?
You can define a certain element in the light and then present it
through a vessel. In physical world this is about quantity. In the
beginning the oceans covered over the earth, and then they were
brought together to reveal the earth. This is not being in a vessel.
If you take some and say, 'this is water' and put it in a cup...
then it is in a vessel...
a vessel enables a
presentation. Lights are essence – reality – not in a vessel.
But in atzilus, there is a world and the lights are put into vessels
and you have sphirot – chochmah, binah, and daas etc...
What is the principle
of presentation? That something can be distinguished from something
else.
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