Friday, June 7, 2013

“Essential Pleasure; Coronas and Infinity” p:25

AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel Friday 29 Sivan 5773 


Page 25 (chuf hay). 6 lines from top of the page – (line begins: 'hanefesh...') For text, click: Here.

After all the levels we have identified as the source of Torah, all the way to primal wisdom, we went above that to essential pleasure (tynug atzmi).

Just as tynug/pleasure is included in the essence of the soul... an essence without essential pleasure is not an essence altogether...

We do not have words to define this essence. But tynug/pleasure is our most extreme manner of relating to something essential. It is the appreciation of the essential reality.


And how do we say the 'essential pleasure' is 'tzalmenu' – 'Our form' – how can it have a form?

The answer is that there are 2 levels in the essential pleasure. The one is expressed – there is a discernable element. And then there is a level that does not come to the level of presentation at all...

Inherent truth and pleasure is beyond activity. It is beyond expression. This is like rotze bekiyumo – it wants to be (not to survive) it wants to be what it is.


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