Tuesday, December 11, 2012

“Nevertheless The Light Remains” p:174


AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel Tuesday 26 Kislev 5772 Third day of Channukah

Page 174/קעד
5 lines from end of the second paragraph of the page – (line starts, 'shum...') For text, see picture below.

We have seen how 'light remains light' even when in a defined vessel – a keili. It is presented in a tangible manner and so one could just take the physical and miss the light. Light is the truth behind the presentation. The vessel belies the fact that there is a truth behind it. Worldliness belies G-dliness.

Nevertheless the light remains.

Yesterday we looked at the general difference between mind/mochin and emotions/middot.

To see reality as it is, one needs to acknowledge that there is 'truth beyond my experience' – this is mochin/mind. Middot/emotions by contrast are based on his own experience.


Chochmah/wisdom is the upper point of mochin/mind. Chochmah tends to be more 'faith than sechel/mind' – this is not the case, but it has so much light that it seems to be more a soul experience than a brain experience!

Chochmah relates to truth itself, not 'proven truth', but the principle of truth. And in this there is the vessel of chochmah and the light of chochmah. 

In our lives, physicality has a fundamental reality. We see it as a stand-alone reality. It belies any source.

On the one hand it conceal G-dliness, on the other hand it is revealing G-dliness to the greatest degree if seen with chochmah!

An animal walks and tramples materials and humans without conception – it cannot be blamed – it is an animal.

On the other hand sight presents reality to the human being. Independent reality. This is a human quality.

The faculty that enables that perception, is not his logical thinking, it is his chochmah/wisdom.

It sees things from a reality perspective. He sees it as it is, as opposed to what he can use it for. He sees a living reality, not a utility or the price he can get for it. This is chochmah.

This is where you sense the pure life element of his soul and hence he relates to that which life sees – not body but soul...

This is experiencing life.

By contrast to seeing, touch works on the level of 'how does it affect me'. Touch is not independent knowledge.





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