“The Beast and The Man” p: 8

AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel ThursdayNight 13 Shvat 5773 

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Lower third of page – about 10 lines from the end – (line starts, 'dehighnu...') For text, click here.

You can start in the highest levels of kedusha. But due to the inherent element of yeshut (self presence), it can devolve all the way to klipah/impurity.

Ban = 52 = beheima/beast – numerically equivalent.

But then there is another world of 10 sphirot. This is the 10 sphirot of Mah.

But first let's look at the principles of yesh and ein. Ein means not a presence. Yesh means a presence. What is non presence? Does ein mean not existing? Nothing positive can be said about not existing.

But we must bear in mind, the basis of all chochmah/wisdom, that there is a First Being.

And this changes our entire perspective of existence. We think first there is 'no' and then comes 'yes' and that every presence is preceded by non presence, so that from an essential perspective it is not there. But this is a worldly perception/approach. The whole theory of evolution is based on this reactionary principle.

But Torah comes and says, “that is not the truth. Not the truth and not even the truth of the world. And not the truth of what you perceive existence to be. Awaken to your true perception. Start to think with your own true intelligence, not on the yeshut (sphirot de Ban) level”.

This is seen when we pose an essential question. What is human life? And then we see it is beyond function and that life is sacrosanct...!

There is a true First Being, that gives everything a positive element.

We are coming to the 10 sphirot of Mah (numerically = 'Adam' = 'what'), which means it lacks 'self promotion' and is thus based on reality.

Their emanation was not of the type for revelation.

The mother of Moses put him in a box in the river. The 'gommer' (a product of a tree) was a component of the box. It resists against hard and soft...

This inherent richness of the material is an example of multiple qualities contained within one... this is the concept of something that emanates, but it is not coming out to be a 'something', but rather to be a true presence.

There is a contemplative man who does not have all his thoughts written on his forehead. He makes no show. He has wisdom on an inherent treasured level. He deals with insights, not a pieces of information. This is wisdom, but not at a knowable level. All secular knowledge is superficial/external knowledge. It is based on things that a perfectly knowable. There is no subtlety.