Hargasha – what is it? The rebbe is explaining that in tohu all the levels are separate, but that they are self-contained. To explain how there is a lack of connection, especially between especially atzilus and briah, he pointed out that even in tikun there is not really a hisachdus between these levels.
He explains there is a hergesh of elokus in the lower levels, but only of the metzius of elokus in briah. Hamshacha of elokus in biah does exist. Presence can exist on different levels. Knowing about something doesn't have to do with unity / presence. To know that there is a Creator, by recognition of one's shortcomings is true and valid, but it doesn't bring the Creator into our midst. So this knowledge is clearly not an inter-relationship.
Thus we come to a different kind of perception – hargasha. Sechel can know things even in total abstentia, by deduction, but this doesn't bring you close – it is a valid stage of knowledge. Midot do not have that capacity at all. They don't relate to things that are known indirectly – they relate only to what touches them directly. They feel the presence of something.
Sechel has to come to a more factual level, called daas, to affect the midot.
Midot do not step out of themselves – so it has to come down and touch them. A midah says, “I feel it”.
Daas is called hargasha – but hargasha of sechel – that it becomes my perception / perspective.
Hamshacha of elokus in biyah means a hargasha eloki, not a hargasha sichli.
This is the meaning that a creation, even though a yesh and metziut, whose primary orientation is knowing itself, but it still has a certain sensitivity – a sensitivity to the truth. This sensitivity can be denied, till a man is not interested in anything beyond himself. The answer is yes, He made a man, who is really a creation, but imbued him with sechel and blessed him with fine qualities.
A human being has a body and a nefesh. And the nefesh is independent of the body – He blew into his nostrils, and thus the nefesh is continually connected to its source. The body can be purified through and through, since it is also a G-dly creation. In the times to come it will be higher than the nefesh.
The hergesh eloki is that the true reality is beyond metzius. It is way beyond what even chochmah is based on. This is hamshacha of elokus in briah. This is evident in the fact that there can be an hergesh elokus – sensing His presence. This is not hergesh hakochot, it is hergesh ha etzem – being margish something that is beyond creation. This is sensing His metzius, not His mehus.
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