Sunday, December 23, 2012

“Essence to Essence” p:2


AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel Monday 10 Tevet 5773 

Page 2
Third down the page – (line starts, 'kuli...') For text, click here.

We said that mitzvoth are primarily designed by the revelation of the will... not as it is in the essence. Thus the Commander is basically hidden – He is in the background...

because He is hidden, before we do a mitzvah, we accept Him... but this acceptance of Him during the year is not like that of the acceptance we have of him on Rosh Hashanah. On that day it is a re-establishment of the connection of 'essence to essence'.

During the year the lowest level is accepting Him throughout the day – which is concealed. It is not at the conscious level.


Accepting Him, is accepting the King, not accepting a ruler. Kingship is different from rulership. Kingship/malchus is not a mode of action, it is a mode of reality.

Acceptance in this context, is accepting Him (without any reference to action). And the only reason there are mitzvoth is because there is a King. 

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