AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel Sunday
6 Nissan 5773
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We have discussed
light. We went all the way to the understanding that the revelation
of the light after the tzimtzum/contraction, where the essence is
hidden, is where the effect of the light is felt – outside the
essence is where the effect of the light is felt.
And the light
acquires a level of metziut and is no longer at the same level of
purity as it had when it was in the essence. Also because the light
had come down it is continually striving to be absorbed in its
source.
What is the
principle of light? Hashem made light and saw that it was good. In
darkness, there is no interrelationship between one location and
another, one entity and another. There is no context.
Light is a creation.
Not just energy hitting an object. From the perspective of darkness
and physicality every object is separate and not part of an overall
context and meaning.
Light is not just the
'showing of tangible items'. The real activity of light is the
revelation that 'objects are 'by the way'' and the real thing is the
essence that is present there. Like when you walk into someone's
home you don't see stuff, you experience the person who lives there.
This is light. Ohr is good – it has a Godly presence.
This Godly presence
can be recognized at 2 levels. There is truth in the source – this
is due to the location. Then there is the level of truth, that
wherever it goes it is true – this is revelation. Thus the
revelation brings out a deeper level of truth than when it was in the
source. A level of truth that does not depend on the source being
present.
What gives everything
a presence in the world is the truth of His presence.
First we say the
shema, and take on the kingdom of heaven and then the responsibility
for mitzvoth.
The taking on the
kingdom of heaven is a ratzu/running to go beyond my own existence.
And taking on the yoke of His commandments is the return/shuv –
doing His deeds down here.
Taking on the kingdom
of heaven, is the statement, “I don't have a separate existence to
You”.
The most important
fight of all, is to accept the faith you have received as an
inheritance. To say publicly I am not a monkey!
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