AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel 19 Tammuz,
5774
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69
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3 lines from the top of the page –
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begins, “bochar...”) For text, click: Here
or see below.
Here's
a very subtle point. Try to have it touch your sechel/mind...
He's
not compelled in any way. He's not captured by anything. Nothing
can attach itself to essence and cause it to deviate. Yet still the
choice in exclusively in this way... and it has to be this way...
He
is choosing to have pleasure in this. Because this is the essence of
his pleasure/tynug and yet it is called choice and not compulsion.
Think
of light and dark. He is not compelled in either. They are equal to
Him.
Yet,
He would choose light over darkness.
To
our mind light is closer to Godliness than darkness.
Choice
is an expression saying, 'this is better than that'.
Israel
has special soul qualities. And there are good soul qualities among
the gentiles. Righteous gentiles have done phenomenal things... and
they have a 'place in the world to come' – a place in eternity.
Nevertheless,
the thing about receiving the Torah, was not just accepting all the
mitzvoth – it was the statement of 'na-aseh ve nishmah' – which
means, 'what we do here has nothing to do with this world – we will
do it because you tell us to do it'.
The
Jewish people say, 'the presence of the world represents one thing –
that there is God in the heavens. The world does not stand alone.
There is one truth and one reality. Take that away and you have
nothing.'
This
is like the host at a meal where you are a guest. If there is no
host, you have nothing.
He's
beyond being present and not present. But he chooses to be present,
because light is rooted in the inner aspect of pleasure (pnimiut ha
tynug).
Choice
has to do with value, not function. As a result of being His
presence becomes known. It is circular logic, but meaningful despite
its circularity.
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