page gimmel – few lines above middle - “royim”.
We're explaining shofar. Torah is called a path/derech. What is the relationship? Torah is the pathway through which the revelation of the light of infinity (ohr ein sof) is drawn into the world.
Ohr ein sof is pashut/simple and ungraspable and beyond the level of hishtalshalus. It cannot be thought of in terms of hishtalshalus. It is outside the gedder.
Hishtalshalus means chaining down, drawing down – to move something top down means to go from klal/abstract to prat/definable.
One common aspect that exist throughout seder hishtalshalus is that there is some kind of definition. Thus something that is pashut betachlis (completely simple) cannot be in the context of histalshalus.
What do we mean by “atzmus ohr ein sof”? Everything that we come in contact with and all that we attempt to understand has to have been in two states – present and not present – things are grasped from the edges – you lift a table from it's edge – the place where it is and is not. All we think of has this binary presence. Atzmus ohr ein sof does not have this – it did not come into being – is and is not is equal. What makes us relate to it? If there is a creation, there must be a creator.
There is level of where, "If you do good you don't contribute to Him and if you do evil you don't detract from Him."
By means of tzimzum this aspect of infinity becomes drawn down.
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