Essential connection

Aeter with R' Paltiel 8/14/09 Friday 24 Menachem Av 5769 Pay Hay

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Chova lacks the essential connection that a mitzvah has. This means that the their service at that time was hachanah/preparation from below.

But now that we do have torah and mitzvahs – the fulfilling of them by themselves is of the level of yirah tata. Also the effect/ha-arah of yirah ilah is felt. Now through eating matzah is drawn down the element of moreh gadol – gilui schinah even before chatzot.

One may think that since we have now gilui shchinah before chatzot so why should it be that matzah is only eaten till midnight and also why is eating matzah a mitzvah not a reshus.

Even today there has to be a hachanah for the gilui that comes on the night of Pesach. There is a gateway and this is the hachanah. This is a hachanah today that is at a higher level than it was in miztraim. The gilui is due to the eating of matzah. After midnight there is inyan of atzmus ein sof without any garment. Before chatzot there is a similar gilui, but it comes by way of levush.

The levush overpowers/covers the gilui. The garment becomes preeminent, not the revelation. This is like ohr and keili – the main thing is the light, but the vessel becomes preeminent – and you get to the light through the vessel.

Etzem is not like ohr that comes from one place to another. We are saying gilui of ohr ein sof is gilui through a levush because even though it is atzmi it is revealed in a way of ohr.

Since etzem does not come through a conduit – the source and the revelation are the same – hence there should not be a mitzvah, which is a conduit.

Next we will explain – if it is an issue of essence/ein sof so how is it involved with a garment/levush and how does the garment obscure/cover it.