Monday, June 24, 2013

“Pleasure and Song” p: 28

AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel Monday 16 Tammuz 5773 

Photo: Batya David, Israel
Page 28 (chuf chet). At the 7th line on the page – (line begins: 'shenenesh...') For text, click: Here.

We said before that the torah is an intermediary to connect the souls with Him. And similarly we said it is the intermediary between the infinite and the world.

This is due to the initial basic pleasure that is vested in Torah, and the pristine chochmah/wisdom that is contained in it.

What is so special about pleasure? It is known that the pleasure is the principle and the life of every thing.


We tend to see things from a keil/vessel perspective. We see bodies, not souls... this is the way the external mind sees. This is a fundamental misinterpretation. A blindness.

The body has no basis for continued existence. It has a precarious existence.

Pleasure is unique in that all faculties, even sechel/mind, have a an element of 'connection'. By contrast pleasure is beyond that level. It is a direct connection. The only element of the human soul that can unify without any 'connecting tissue' is oneg/pleasure. You actually experience the thing you are connected to. So it has to be something that allows the person to 'open up' and unify with it.



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