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Running to the king is different from serving the king. He can serve the king from where ever he is. There is a deeper connection to the king that demands of him a personal connection. That exists of the two levels of running to the king and of being with the king.
In this personal level there is a reversal of ratzu ve shuv. Usually ratzu is leaving his normal state and shuv is coming back to the himself. Here his normal state is being with the king, not being himself.
This is what we were saying about the service of the weekday and shabbat. In the prophesy of yechezkel – when the angels settled down, then their wings would fold – this is like shabbat, without activity.
Everything really originates with the kesser – ratzon trickles down through the entire seder hishtalshalus and manifests itself at every level in different ways.
Then there is the inyan of chochmah, which has two levels. It is like an intermediary between kesser and the rest of the kochot. It has to bring down and represent the upper level too, yet it, itself is outside. How is chochma able to do this? This is due to the level of bitul that it has.
Why are we able to see something as it is? This is the aspect of bitul . This is not the awareness of chochmah that it is seeing, but this is the connection itself – the knowledge that you are looking at the realilty/truth of the object, not our impression of it.
In the mah of chochmah is the level that it is totally uninterested in its own experience – it is only focused on what it is looking it – on the subject of the chochmah.
This is the principle of sechel – while it is a metziut and we grasp what we know, at the same time the upper aspect of sechel is, “I am not a metziut – I am only interested to know the reality.” this is the quality of a human – it is not seeking its own experience, it is seeking the truth. The truth is automatically outside his personal experience – he seeks the truth because it is true. He does not need another reason for doing it – if it is true he wants to do it – truth itself touches him.
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