Sunday, June 16, 2013

“Primal Knowledge” p: 26

AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel Sunday 8 Tammuz 5773
  
Photo: Batya David, Israel
Page 26 (chuf vav). At a about a quarter into the page – (line begins: 'hahelem...') For text, click: Here.

Torah joins heaven and earth. It is a memutzah – intermediary.

It connects infinity (einsof) and neshamas Yisroel (souls of Israel).

In the Torah, although it has chochmah/wisdom, it also has Atzmus Einsof (infinite essence) itself contained within it.

The principle of an intermediary is not that it just carries from one side to the other like a bridge. Intermediary means that there is an actual connection to the source – to the original state.

Torah relates to halachas/laws in the physical world... we have many metaphors that show the essential and the functional level. A person's home is like this – it is essential and it performs a function.


An animal has a functional identity. It needs food and shelter on the functional level. Man is different.

The chochmah of Torah enclothes itself in halachas/laws. But still this chochmah remains fully representative of it being an ohr einsof.

The Torah is an intermediary to bind the souls of Israel with His Infinity.

There is Torah in chochmah hakdumah – primal wisdom.

Why talk in terms of chochmah hakdumah – primal wisdom? We are saying an essence is unto itself, like a rock. But a rock does not know of its own existence. In real essence, there is everything, and nothing...

This chochmah hakdumah – primal wisdom is the original source of Torah. And there Torah has this dual identity – it is Him and it comes through as chochmah.









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