In the garden of Edan... and on earth

AiynBase with R' Paltiel 2/4/10 ThursdayNight 21 Shevat 5770


Page 11 – about a third from the end of the page - “ohr she lemayla mibechinat hakli”.


Looking at how the principle of bitul, at all levels are in a deep way related – birur / bitul of shem ban is a bitul where the nefesh habahamit recognizes there is a better way. This better way is still engaging its own metziut, thus at this point even though he is a keili to receive hashpaah, it is based on his level – for example being a vessel for the chochmah the wiser man will teach him.


This is wonderful, but it is not yet reaching the point that he will receive an ohr that is not dressed in a keli. He has the bitul to receive the wisdom that is above him, but it is in a keili.

The Alte Rebbe was being escorted by Avraham hamalach said to the wagon driver, “you have to hit the horse till it ceases to be a horse” or “you have to hit the horse till it knows its a horse”. This is like clearing the way for the nefesh habahmit to start dealing with nefesh haenushi – the level of sechel. This is like raising a child – the child's raising opens his mind to right and wrong and brings him out of himself. 

First there is the training of the animal soul that it should be interested in sechel at all. But why should he give up what he is? How do you train him? Why give in to higher sechel? He submits to the truth. Sechel enushi says, behave like a human, not like an animal – there is a truth that man has been made to be human. The animal soul begins to recognize there is a truth. So there is a higher level of bitul / birur. The bitul ha yesh is effected by Torah – the animal soul is made to recognize and relate not jus the sechel, but to the source of the sechel – a recognition of the truth itself. The first birur leads on to this second level. The nefesh ha bahamit of man has sechel and can thus have a birur / refinement. 


A building is based on a foundation, based on rules of engineering, using human sechel, but based on the principle that the earth is a solid base – the solidity of the earth is based on a G-dly will. So now we see “this structure stands because He wants it to stand”. If not for the fact that He builds a house, then the builders are engaged for naught. - Psalms.

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This is birur of Torah – rules of how to behave in the world, but not base on the world – based rather on a G-dly will.


The keili becomes like the ohr – the same will that holds the world in mid space is what holds up the building – everything is a miracle.


Torah brings worldly rulings that are not based on world at all. Two are walking in the street, one with a beam and one with a glass jar – if the one with the jar stopped suddenly, you may think the beam carrier is exempt. If he stopped to rest – then yes, but if you stop to adjust the load then no the beam carrier is responsible. If the man with the beam was in front and the glass carrier behind, same applies.


What is behind the rulings, is not who broke what, but who did wrong. What's wrong with doing a wrong thing? The responsibility is not on the incident, but on the human – a human is under obligation to behave responsibly. Not being responsible is like a hillul hashem.