Line starts vesovev kol almin – about a third down the page.
As we focus on the world in front of us we see that it is a G-dly creation and we see that He acts on it in two ways – memale and sovev.
For us to be what we are we need to keep these two in mind.
We recognize the G-dly presence at 2 levels – memale and sovev.
Avraham avinu did intellectual research to make sense of what he was seeing when looking at the world and he came to the conclusion that the world was not made by itself – it was guided and made by an infinite power.
He saw sunrises and sunsets daily, and seasons cycle and the world in general – he saw a reality that does not lend itself to be explained from a worldly perspective. It has a G-dly quality. Each human experience of thought, speech and action is unfathomable.
In the world when you ask, “where does it come from?” and track who made/owns it, it does not affect the object. Avraham was looking not to “enjoy” the world – he was looking for the truth.
He persevered till Hashem came and lifted him up from atzecha (parsha lech lecha).
If we recognize that the world is a non-entity if not for the G-dly force, we say, “what should we dedicate our lives to?!” Avraham at a previous stage had gone out and debated all the people of his town and put himself in danger and told them that they are falsifying reality.
He wanted to know “how will I satisfy the neshamah?” rather than saying “in what activity will I use the neshamah to satisfy the body?”
pnimiut ha sechel is able to relate to a spiritual quality – when we bring it down to machshavah it is lacking, we have a nefesh and are able to relate to this, but on a kochot hanefesh level.
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