Sunday, August 18, 2013

Look and Look Away” p: 32-33 AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R'

Paltiel Sunday 12 Elul 5773

Page 32 (לב). Lower third of the page – (line begins: 'ha-atzmus...') For text, click: Here.

Looking at chochmah/wisdom. We said it is just interested in the pure truth... we touched on how it is different from the essence of delight.

Chochmah has delight hidden within it.

What is the function of chochmah? It is outside the essence. Oneg/delight and ratzon/will are within the essence.

It is a great kindness and miracle that we are connected to chochmah. We have a 'similar' experience on the physical level and that triggers our knowledge of the chochmah... sight is the physical 'trigger' for us to be in touch with chochmah/wisdom.


Sight makes you aware of reality by observation and then you relate back to the essence that precedes observation. It relates you to a reality that you cannot deny. So the external observation brings us to an internal reality. That is a miracle.

The miracle is that chochmah is an actual external faculty, yet it connects you to the essence. So the world is not just a coordination of multiple points – chochmah/wisdom brings sense of unity/delight.

There is an element called, 'knowing oneself'. A person is himself. What is knowing himself? If you are yourself, what is knowing oneself? There is delight/oneg in every part of the human being. It is sourced in the chochmah/wisdom. And each part is alive, but without awareness. But when it comes through chochmah/widsom there is awareness – so both vitality and awareness are provided.

Tshuvah/return bypasses the whole structure and goes straight to the vitality itself. There is an inherent connection in the soul with its Creator. This precedes awareness. Tshuvah/return is a soul awakening and going to the Source.

On Yom Kippur it is forbidden to eat and drink. Eating and drinking brings life to the body – life at the body level. This is a day to relate to life not through the body, but directly.

Return/tshuvah is an expression of 'essence to essence' and that does not express itself. 'What happened here?' 'Nothing!'




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