AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel Sunday 25
Iyar 5773
Page
18 (yud chet). At about last third of the page –
(line
begins: 'kuli...') For text, click: Here.
When the ratzu/run is
due to meditation on Godliness that brings about a love – then the
love can be experienced in 2 manners, and both need to be present for
the love to be complete and satisfied – 1) the running to be close,
and 2) the return which is the recognition of the presence of the
beloved.
The return is what
satisfies the 'thirst' of love – like water flows to a low place.
A yearning for
'something that cannot be grasped' is beyond personal experience and
the search for satisfaction. It is a yearning for essence.
There is a simple
pure human perspective, but due to the strength of the intellect this
can be diminished...
A revelation of a
higher light, enhances presence in general and resolves the
difference between opposites (kindness vs severity or run vs return
etc).
There is a positive
nullification, in that the entity realizes something superior to his
being...
Ratzu/run is a desire
and includes personal experience. But it includes a deep
nullification, that in the peak of his desire, there is an element of
shuv/return. He puts himself aside before the Infinite One.
Everything exists and
has its presence. This goes deep. But the underlying consciousness
is the will of the Creator that these things should be. In absolute
truth when we observe everything in the world, we are seeing what He
is making...
In living things we
see that it is the 'life' that maintains them. And so too with
inanimate objects.
And there are 2 ways
to see – 1) I recognize there is a world because it is the Godly
truth that maintains it. And then there is a higher level, 2) from
the perspective of the soul, all I recognize is the First Creator.
All the other stuff, 'I don't know that its doing here', and if He
says, look at it, then I go there. This way my personal element
completely dissipates because I have a much superior presence. I
don't see the world per se, I see what He is commanding me to
see...
Chassidus explains
that a king – the true principles of a king in Torah – the king
is everything. And you do your thing, not because you are a good
person, but because the king is there, and this gives value to
everything else.
Think of the story of
the 4 Torah giants who went into the orchard/pardes, to see Godliness
from the inside.
Only Rabbi Akiva,
came out whole. He went in in peace and came out in peace, even
though he saw things that the human mind cannot process. So how did
he handle it?
The trick was he
entered in peace, and this is the profound bitul/nullification, of
only wanting to satisfy God's intention, without any admixture of
personal concern.
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