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At matan torah there were a new inyan – He held a mountain over them.
Before matan torah this level of higher level love did not exist yet in the world.
The mind can deduce things. The heart can only perceive that which touches it directly. Ahavah and yira are felt when there is a direct perception. Chassidus has 2 categories of middot – those created by sechel, and those that don't go through a process.
Ahavah and yirah elyona is the direct perception of the heart. When He “held the mountain over them” they had the full impact of this – it broke through every barrier of the heart.
In mitzraim they were at a lower level. They didn't have the mitzvah of matzah. It was a chovah. Chovah is part of the person – an obligation that he has. A mitzvah by contrast is part of the commander.
Chovah is in the feminine aspect and mitzvah is masculine. In nukvah there is the need to sweeten the judgements, and this was the matzah they ate.
Dinim has to do with yeshus. Its whole metzius is focussed on what it is – this is dinim - “me versus you”. Hamtakah is the sweetening – bitul ha yesh – an aspect of opening and being able to receive something else.
There is the aspect of a command – ohr abba – masculine element, but in mitzraim it was still on the level of chovah. The ultimate gilui was at midnight. But now that we have torah and mitzvahs that have inherently kabalat ol and yirah ilah in them, we can now have the revelation before midnight.
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