Correction: towards the end of the class on Monday – the view that we have that the world is yesh mi ein is not just a means of explaining the inexplicable – it is the actual view of the nefesh.
Chochmah is an intermediate stage between ohr and shefa. Chochmah becomes a metzius, but one that reflects the ratzon. Ohr is like the etzem / essence itself. Because the light is in a state of true connection to the etzem, it is different from chochmah, which sees it from outside – it is not seeing in a devekus / cleaving manner.
Chochmah means wisdom – this that comes into chochmah, has an element of “making senses” - and this is a quality of sechel. This is the reason chochmah does not come easily – you have to work and purify yourself – this is so you will be a vessel for the light that is coming and being transformed. The observation is ohr, but how you receive it is chochmah.
So too above – the light has the element of cleaving to the luminary – it does not present itself as ohr, but rather as representing the luminary.
The ohr ein sof is infinite, not because of its eternal nature, or infinite range, rather it is infinite due to its connection with its source.
And here are notes from yesterday (by Yehuda):
B”H
2.9.2010 (Tuesday, 25 Shevat) p.12 (3 lines from bottom)
If seichel was like ohr, you would see exactly how the rav was thinking. Seichel is not like this. It is shefa -a transmission of the etzm and not the etzm itself.
Ohr – In the example the light of the sun, although it would seem that the light that reaches us does not represent the light of the sun in its pure state and seemingly the sunlight is not a good mashal for ohr – however, this is not the case. Light of the sun that reaches us is a light that can illuminate darkness (and lets us see darkness), not a pure ohr that lets us see ohr. The shemesh itself doesn’t know darkness at all. It is the etzm of ohr. It would seem that we do not get this inyan of etzm of ohr, but we do.
“Day” is an essential state. Day does not recognize that there is night. The reason there is such a thing as day is b/c of the sun. Sun is exclusively light. We cannot recreate such a light. In our world, light only comes from darkness (i.e. burning a wick). Sunlight is a light that comes from light. Sunlight is the very same light that comes from the sun.
Definition of ohr is that it points to its source not itself.
Light of the sun is like darkness to us. Darkness to us is the fundamental state. Light is the fundamental state of the sun.
Only an essence can be ain sof. Anything that is a composite cannot be ain sof. Any accumulation cannot be ain sof. Ohr is ain sof b/c it is really representative of the etzm.
Functional aspect of the light translates into the mekabbel’s kalim. But the aspect of “day” cannot be translated into kalim. He doesn’t know what to do with it. The significance of his getting this ohr is the revelation of the presence of the etzm.
Avraham Avinu discovered who created the world. His conclusion was that we have to serve Him. World doesn’t represent itself, it represents the Creator – therefore whole significance of being in the world is to serve the Creator.
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