It receives it the way it comes.

AiynBase with R' Paltiel 1/26/10 Tuesday 11 Shevat 5770

Page 10 – about 10 lines from the bottom - “chitzonius”.


We are discussing that there is a “system” from seder hishtalshalus, providing a connect between the higher and lower level, with different stages – kesser – mochin and za – with different types of hamshachas.


There is a element of mochin that midot receive and recognize. The emotions can relate to and identify the intellectual level. But higher up chochmah does not really relate to kesser – it is ein – it gets only the ein aspect of kesser – this is a chitzoni aspect. Kesser is such an entity that from the perspective of chochmah it is ein.


Also chochmah receives this ein, but not the mehus of kesser. Chochmah is bitul, and so it can relate without grasping – it receives it the way it comes. We receive and benefit from light, but we cannot grasp it.


The difference between inner and external is that pnimi / inner is how the light views itself. Chitzoni is how it is viewed from outside. All the light in seder hishtalshalus is all chitzoni. It represents the pnimius. Chitzoni is how it is observed from outside. Pnimius is internal truth, without a connection to the outside – it is what it is – it is not prepared to express itself.