“The Power of Nothing” p:45

AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel Sunday 5 Tevet 5774 

Page 45 מה

At 5 lines from the end of the page – (line begins: "al yedei...”) For text, click: Here.

The creation of the world is based on the union of chochmah/insight and binah/understanding.

This is the same as the union of ein/nothing with yesh/something. The something has no real presence till it is provided by the 'nothing'/ein.

The faculties that we have (walking, talking, thinking etc), have no real significance unto themselves whatsoever. Their significance is what they draw from above that makes them real. There is a spirit that makes them real. The spirit is the nothing/ein that makes them real.

If a person is bored, can't he walk around or throw pebbles into water? But that has no significance. Without the spirit, the something is not real. When the spirit informs the activity then it is very satisfying...

The creation has to continually remember that it is coming from the truth of ein/nothing. If we become oblivious to what we are doing, and just focused on the action, this is hiding...

“I worked with a doctor who graduated high in his class, but had no sense of what he was doing.” If you don't appreciate what you are doing it is useless.

Inside the text: the creation in an active state is from malchus of the world of atzilus. Yes, there is chochmah and binah, and we will see the difference between binah and malchus...

Malchus (the lowest sphirah) is the nothing, that is the source for the something...

The principle of 'coming into being' (his-havut), is where you start to see 'things', and it is based on action, rather than just being there, by virtue of being connected to its source. And action takes place outside... externally... and where is an external place if you are talking of Godliness?

Think of language. It goes all the way down to the level of letters. And letters are presence without meaning. And that's what creation is... you get out of bed by action, not by thinking about it...

There is creation on an external level, yet it retains its connection to what is above it.

Any normal human action (not driven by fear and self preservation) is based on the inner knowledge/chochmah, that, 'there is a King in the world'.

We live in the King's domain, not in a jungle or an empty vacuum.

'Everything comes from you' is totally wrong. Nothing comes from you. It comes from Him. Through you.

You are not driven by fog (f.o.g – fear, obligation, guilt). You have a soul. You are not compelled. You have a soul that is expressing itself. Kabalat ol / accepting the King is the source of life. Full life. Accepting Him is the height of intelligence.