“I Go Because I Want to Go” p: 171 AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel Friday 10 Cheshvan 5772 

Page 171 – about a third from the end of the page – (line starts, 'biyah...') For text, see picture below.

We are discussing, what aspect of G-dliness can be comprehended. We got into this by the statement that light has an essential element and that just as essence cannot be known, so too, the light cannot be known. And then we got into a discussion of what can be known.

What can be known is the light that is in a vessel – ohr that is mispashet – this is the functional element of light and this we can know... and it is still a G-dly phenomenon.

And there are 2 levels of knowing – knowing the essence element (yediat hamehus) and knowing the presence/existence (yediat hametziut).

There are 4 general levels in the world. 1. domim – inanimate; 2. tzomeach – vegetative; 3. chai – animal; and 4. medaber – human (lit: 'speaker'). We can see and study how plants grow. We cannot understand the spirit of growth and thus it tends to be discounted.

Even the stones (inanimate) have a spirit!

At the medaber – human level, which corresponds to the world of atzilus – although we perceive him at a physical level we cannot fully grasp his import.

The Rebbe sang Shemil's niggun for the first time. Rabbi Teleshevsky said, 'it was with the voice of an expert opera singer – effortlessly' and we know the Rebbe never took a single voice lesson. From where is this voice? From the essence of the life of the medaber-human level. Meaning, if you live at this level, then automatically you will produce this voice. It does not depend on vocal cords and training – it comes from a different source.

At each level there is an ohr/light. We are able to identify the functional level.

The human has something unique and different from the rest of the world. His orientation is primarily on a soul level, rather than body. He senses the reality of his neshamah/soul.

We see the functionality of the soul. It is not knowing remotely. This is the level of memaale kol almin – G-dliness vested in world and creation.

And from the knowledge of Him 'filling all worlds' we know that there is too a level of Him that is 'sovev kol almin' – encompassing and beyond anything to do with worlds.

So if it a level beyond world, so what do we know about it?

We have a knowledge about it, but no grasp of what it is.