“My Expressed Presence” p:2 AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel Tuesday 5 Tevet 5773

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We are looking at the inherent superiority of tshuvah/return/repentance over other mitzvoth.

The significance of mizvoth is that He commands them – He is their significance and from His pespective they are all the same.

The mitzvah represents His will – the revelation of His will. By His mitzvoth He is present in the world. For Him Himself it makes no difference.

He is above being affected.

To incorporate Him into the mitzvoth we proceed doing them with 'taking upon ourselves the yoke of Heaven' (kiblu alay hem ol malchut shamayim).

This is the same as it says at Matan Torah, 'respect the mitzvoth since they are My emissaries'. They are My expressed presence, and not Me, Myself. And a man's emissary is like himself.

But still it is an 'emissary' form...

Light; it is from a will in Essence to represent Himself in light... thus the light represents Him.

Mitzvoth are likewise rooted in Essence.