How do you know you are alive? This is not “knowledge”. You feel it through and through. You have not question – you are totally united with this chayut. And there are two separate things – the body and the flow of life. The point is that we cannot be margish the mehus of elokus and are thus separate.
There is a G-dly presence in the world – this is a hamshacha and this allows for a hargasha, despite the separation that exists.
We explained why we go into hergesh rather than knowledge. Knowledge is altogether separate, but hergesh has to do with a relationship and an achdus / unity. Nevertheless it is not a real hisachdus, since it is only a hergesh of metziut.
There is a sense , that there is an absolute reality – creations feel that they are not just circumstantial – that is an element of elokus in the creation. This is a hergesh.
The earth has a power of tzameach / growth. This is intangible. Scientifically we look at it totally differently, yet despite that we sense that the earth produces the growth.
We sense there is a truth beyond our understanding and then we have sechel to recognize that we have that sense. Sechel tells us, “you should know that that is the truth,” but with sechel alone you wouldn't get to that level of truth. This sense is from ratzon and oneg.
We sense that we are alive, but not that we are alive, we sense life itself. It is a neshama, not a guf / body thing. The chayut in the world is from shem havaya, but it comes through shem elokim. How do we know? Because we are margish that we are alive – this is life itself. There isn't a separation between us and the life. This is the mehus – relating through hergesh of mehus.
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The very fact that a person can go and do things contrary to his own well-being and to what life demands, shows he is not conscious of life as a presence. What causes him to go against life? He's enticed and affected by some metzius, then he can go and ignore the metziut of the nefesh.
6 lines from the bottom of page 9 “hisachdut mamash”.
Hergesh means an actual sense and a presence. But it is only metziut and not hisachdus mamash.
There is unity when there is gilui of elokus. Mehus is not felt through it's manifestation, but sensing the ohr itself, not its presence.
Day is not in contrast to darkness – it is a new state. This is like relating to mehus. “What does day think of night?” “Day doesn't think of night at all, light and dark know each other.”
this talk of atzilus and briah was brought down only to show something about of tohu. In tohu the levels of atzilus and briah and all levels are in a state of total separation. In tikun there is a hergesh, though without full unity, but tohu doesn't have this. In tohu each thing feels only itself.
In tohu too, each level is derived from the other, yet they don't relate to each other. The don't have an identifiable affect on each other.
In tikun the relationship between atzilus and briah is one of actual affect, shem mah gets enclothed in shem ban. Each aspect is able to relate to the other, shem mah goes down and shem ban allows itself to be elevated.
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