“He Wants to be There” p: 170

AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel Tuesday 30 Tishrei 5772 

Page 170 – about10 lines from the top of the page – (line starts, 'she-le-ztorech ha-olamot...') For text, see picture below.

A point has been made: the light after the tzimzum/contraction, is still representative of the light from before and comes with an element of 'closeness'.

The essence retracts back into Himself. And He forms a new light, with closeness.

You may think that the vacuum solicits light and then there is a response. But really there is an intent from above, that, 'I want to reveal light into this vacuum'. And these two processes are entirely different even though you may think the results are the same. When the light is initiated from above, it has te power of the Giver – He wants to be there – and this is the meaning of kiruv/closeness.

By means of the tzimzum, the inner/pnimiut and external/chitzonitut levels are identified.

The inner level is there due to the source. And the recipient can only relate to the external level – 'if he's not aware that he's getting it, its not knowledge'. Life means you are participating and aware of what is happening.

The external level is the presentation and the sensation. It results in being a 'general point' that contains the light in general. It says, 'there is something here'. This is the first presentation. This is what is called the nekudat ha reshimah.

For light to come from this point, it is only by means of the process of bringing back the original light (chozer u-may-ir) to illuminate this point. You have to come to it from the perspective of its source, rather than what you have here. Without that approach, you just know 'how this operates within its own parameter', without knowing what it represents.

This is seen in the metaphor of mashpia/mentor and mekabel/mentee. The mentor has a different thought process. He's not 'working things out, by a deductive process'.

The mentor has to conceal his perspective and see things from the perspective of the recipient.

And by means of this will surface the light of mind that is suitable for presentation to the recipient. The perspective that can be grasped from a perspective of absence.