Heart's desire

Aeter with R' Paltiel 7/16/09 Wednesday 24 Tammuz 5769

A third from the top of page pay alef. Line starts – mechaber.

Knesset yisroel is the higher level of malchus – knesset means gathering. Pnimius malchus is that in yisroel there are two levels – yisroel sava and yisroel zuta. Sava is grandfather, sava is young/small.

Yisroel zuta is a young lad, “and I love him” - the love comes on account of his youth. Yisroel sava is the grandfather and he has the element of atik. These are the 2 levels of knesset yisroel.

One level is that they receive the hashpah from the lower level and the other is they receive from the higher level.

Now these kabbalah terms will be explained.

These 2 levels correspond to 2 levels in malchus. Romemus al am and romemus atzmi. Romemus atzmi is from yisroel sava and romemus al am is from yisroel zuta.

In general the level of yisroel is “li rosh” (the word yisroel has letters that spell li rosh). This is the mind of za – the inner quality of za that is united with atik.

As is known also in za from the forehead and up is of the level that adam cannot dwell there.

Yisroel sava is the level of head of arich.

To summarise: Yisroel is the inyan of mochin and there are 2 levels. And that is why there are 2 levels in knesset yisroel. Sphirot are generally of the level adam, but there is an inner quality here that is of atik.

In simple terms this is the principle that the inner koach of middot is from ratzon even though midot are revealed through sechel. Atik is the koach of ratzon and atik. Even though za is lower than chabad, but the power of za is drawn from the koach of atik.

Since it is from the power of atik, thus within malchus/za itself is a quality that is beyond seder hishtalshalus.

These 2 levels in avodah – one is expressed in arusa de liba. The heart normally is related to midot/za. But in the heart there is also the desire/ratzon. This is the ratzon that comes forth on shabbos as a result of the avodah of ratzon hatachton – ie al pi taam ve daas. This is the work with the midot as they are formulated by sechel and the inner aspect here is ratzon.

This is the work of prayer – with tzakas halev – the inner scream from the heart. The davening of every day is the higher aspect or shabbos of every day. On shabbos itself there is also arusa de liba and this is yisroel sava.

To explain practically the difference between the two arousals of the heart it can be said that the one of the weekday is expressed as a scream/desire for kalot hanefesh. He is in a state of razu/running wanting. The arousal of shabbos is where he is actually absorbed – bitul be metziut. He is already in the kesser/elevated.

We can focus on some points. Our undersatnding is that wanting is for things we don't have. So on the 6 weekdays there is the desire, but on the shabbos he is already nichlal, yet this too is called ratzon.

It is hard for us to grasp this – the ratzon is an essential state, not “I got it now I'm going to sleep, rather I got it and now I'm living with it.”

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