Friday, July 19, 2013

“Premeditated Kindness” p: 30

AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel Frisday 12 Menachem Av 5773 

Photo: Batya David, Israel

Page 30 (lamed). Below the middle of the page – (line begins: 'atzmi'im...') For text, click: Here.

The faculty of wisdom is between being a faculty (that works by mean of an activity) and being and essence.

This is why chochmah/wisdom has the ability to bring essence down into specific faculties.

Essence is above definition, but we can point to it. We point to the human being – he has a variety of needs and experiences, but there is an essential human being. It makes all the difference to him if he is an invited guest or an interloper, even if no-one disturbs him and there is ample food. He needs to be an invited presence – real, not inadvertent.


Chochmah is a vessel for the essential lights of the soul (ohrot atzmiim she benefesh).

Every faculty has an account of how something is accomplished. It knows the effort invested. The exception to this is chochmah/wisdom. It says, 'I am being shown, I am totally inadvertent!' and in this way it gets the reality, while remaining a non-presence.

So how is this non-presence (chochmah) impact the lower faculties that are all about presence...? The answer is that there is allusion to chochmah in all activities and entities.

There is an allusion to chochmah in every faculty. If chochmah per se was there they would dissipate. Each faculty feels that within chochmah they are significant.






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