Thursday, March 14, 2013

“A Name For My Longing” p:13


AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel ThursdayNight 3 Nissan 5773 

Page 13
9th line of the page – (line begins: 'veachar...') For text, click: Here.

We are looking at essence! This is etzem. The world does not contain essence. There are things that give the world meaning, but this is not essence in the real sense of the word!

Essence is the pure truth itself. Not a truth that has any circumstantial presence. Sechel/mind deals with meaning and the human element – this is what it relates to. The true significance is what sechel/mind relates to. Essence is that significance in the purist sense.

Think of a table it is not just a convenience. It is an essential element in human reality. It is indicative of the human, royal quality. A human being is the king of the world.


A table is symbolic of this human element. We don't sit in 'no man's land'. We have a set table with our needs before us...!

the table has components. But the essential element is not the legs or the board. The essential is its service of the human being. This is the separating of the essential from the insignificant. Essence only has significance.

Essence has nothing precarious. It only has the pure truth.

The Alte Rebbe said, that from his childhood he never had any struggle to understand any element of hidden Torah!

The light as it is in the source is pure. After the tzimzum/contraction, the light was lowered from its level. After the tzimzum the light is called atzilus – an emanation. It now has a metzius. And metzius has an element that is not pure. When something is used for a human purpose it acquires an essential element.

In metziut there is a false element. An element of a lie. It is pretending, but it is not pure ohr.

This is the cause of the powerful desire and craving (ratzu) of light for its source. Since it is just a reflection without an essential presence, it is drawn constantly to its source...

The light is connected to its source. And in the light is the source felt. This is the case even after the tzimzum.

In the source you have the essential truth itself. This is like the light within the sun, which has no cognizance of darkness at all. Then there is the light that emanates out from the sun... 

And what do we experience in the faculty of 'sight'? Even on the physical level we have the pure presence itself – 'its there so I see it' – it is automatic. This is not functional, this is essential. This clear perception is reminiscent of sun and the 'no possibility of darkness'. Why does light project this truth even on a physical level? Because it is totally nullified to its source. It does not claim any presence of its own.

The light carries no message of itself. You are aware of the sun, not of the light. The light illuminates, it doesn't bump against you.

Light has two element. It is a functional element – ha-arah. And it is cleaves to its source. It is a functional 'thing' that only appreciates the essence.

By contrast a stone that is thrown separates from its source. The light always cleaves to the source, even though it too moves.





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