“The Body Becomes Aware of What the Soul is Telling It” p:173

AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel Sunday 11 Kislev 5772 

Page 173/קעג at middle of the page – (line starts, 'sheposhet...') For text, see picture below.

The garment the body for the soul is so connected that they cannot be separated for a moment.

A second level – the letters of thought – the life element of the soul is present at all levels – it enlivens the body and gives life to the faculties. Will and pleasure express themselves throughout the body. The sense of being alive, though everywhere, is sensed primarily in thought.

In the letters of thought, the body becomes aware of what the soul is telling it. 'Letters/otios' are receptacles. They are garments where the sechel/mind can be enclothed. And thus a person can be aware of what he is thinking. By means of these letters of thought, which is an active state, the body can be aware of thought and soul.

On can exchange thoughts. But it is impossible to be without thought. Our awareness is consists of thoughts. The soul is dressed in the body and the body has a constant conscious awareness of life.

Then there is speech. There is a 'time to talk and a time to be silent', says the verse. Speech is not constant. One refrains from speaking and that is not to see the soul is not there. But during silence the garment of speech is not in use.

So you may thinks speech is totally external... but in truth the speech is not really separate. It does not really break away from the person.

This is seen since speech affects a closeness in another person.

When a man teaches a sechel/topic, he has to re-live it. Otherwise he is not a true teacher. He has to put himself into it. Words without him experiencing him it afresh, would be lifeless words.

The dibur/speech affects a closeness. When a great man talks to another. The recipient is elevated, even though they are in 2 different worlds. Because there is life in the words.

When a man's name is on a piece of property, this is like the speech. In speech there is a connection even though it goes out to another and one can stop speaking.

In chassidus it says that if you 'eves-drop' on a session of learning, and you are not addressed, even if you follow all the information it will not have the intended impact. The intended listener is also separate from his teacher, so what enables them to be connected? And why does it matter who's addressed? The reason we can have this connection is because we are are 'in the presence of each other' and the one who 'eves-drops' is not in the presence.

This is like having a name. An animal cannot have a name. It only has its own existence. Each man, by contrast impacts the whole world.

The fact of this real communication of 2 people talking to each other, is that they are in the same reality. They share. The one who 'listens in' does not share that.

We can point to this factor. We cannot really identify it. A man is an essence, and hence he can impact and be a presence in the world.