Monday, December 17, 2012

“What are You Doing in the World” p:1-2/א


AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel Monday 4 Tevet 5773 

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6th line from end of the page – (line starts, 'hu...') For text, click here.

We said that source of life, is in essence, and this is reached by means of tshuvah from the depths of the heart.

On the revealed level, sechel/mind guides the heart. But in mind, even in chochmah/wisdom there is a sense of a presence. A principle of sechel is that you sense, 'how you got it' – 'learned it'. Even in chochmah this is true, the experience of, 'not having and having' in contrast to ratzon which is 'ever present'.


In the heart, there are emotions guided by mind, but then there are the depths of the heart, that are the essence of the soul. It has no process. It does not come to be. It always is. It precedes ratzon.

In our experience we don't know the significance of ratzon/will. In our thinking 'will' and 'want' has a cause. We say, 'I want this, because I lack it'. But the real meaning of ratzon is very different from what we experience in 'I want'. The english word 'want' also means 'lacking'. But the real meaning of 'ratzon' does not have this element of 'lacking'.


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