Friday, April 5, 2013

“Thirsty” p:15


AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel Friday 25 Nissan 5773 



Page 15
8th line from the top of the page – (line begins: 'kuli...') For text, click: Here.

We are getting to sense the reality of the situation described – the 'run and return'...

In the run/ratzu there is a real recognition of elokus/Godliness... this is all he wants, because this is what his soul is... the world does not substantiate this knowledge. It is a soul quality. When one abandons and goes beyond worldly calculations and gain, desiring to be a human being... that's what it is... this is its attraction.

Think of the host and the guest. The experience of the host is not a worldly experience...


In the love he does not satiate his thirst... the love is the run towards Godliness... it is not a satisfying experience... it is an exciting experience...!

The thirsting applies exclusively to water. It is not a desire for food...

Eating is different from drinking... Food has its own form and needs digestion etc. The real benefit of the food is after it is digested and transformed till it can cross the membrane of the stomach and provide nutrition to the body.

Water is different. It spreads and does not hold its own form. It feeds the body without the need for digestion. How does that approximate Godliness? In evolutionary thinking everything a person or organism has is due to its will to survive and grasp. There is not a real reality. And this creates an enormous thirst. Thirst is the thirsting for that reality that gives him life... that creeps in and gives him life. He wants elokust to permeate him, he wants to be engulfed and receive life. Life is the real reality, not the experience.

After the striving in love is a return to the world, but now with a recognition of the Godliness in the world. He's working in the world but is no longer distracted by the forms and vessels of the world. He senses the Godliness aspects in everything. 


Even a simple person can reach the pinacle of mind – emunah/faith. And in the simple person this can be even more revealed. The Baal Shem Tov tells of cases where the faith/Godliness is constantly present. He is beyond the run and return.

Doing torah and mitzvoth is like being with the host. Being engulfed by Him. It is like being at the table of the King. On Shabbat we abstain from work, not because 'it is human to take a break', but because, 'the main thing is not the created, but the Creator – He is the reality. This is the reality of everything. And the world is only a by-product for the recognition of Him'.

This is the satisfying of the thirst...


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