Page 15. Nine lines from the top – line starts, “elokus”. See sidebar on the right hand side for copy of the text.
We explained that there is ratzu followed by a shuv. Each phase is not totally independent. Even though there is a ratzu and complete desire for elokus, yet there is something missing that he will first get during the shuv and this missing element is devekus.
In ratzu there is also devekus, but not that he feels the G-dly presence. Really to have elokus in his life is accomplished through a different mode – that is shuv with torah and mitzvoth.
Ratzu is a desire to understand and know. Shuv is recognition of the actual presence.
There is an element of ratzu within the shuv. He has torah and mitzvoth. He doesn't desire something else, he has the object of his desire.
The deepest aspect of torah is kabalos ol, not blind faith, but recognition of Him that cannot be fully comprehended. “He is right here and I'm going to do what he wants, I am doing what he wants.”
Chochmah has full access to the truth, but it is access, it is not part and parcel of it.
When we are modeh al ha-emes – recognizers of truth – there is G-dliness expressed in this world by the phenomena of sunrise and other physical elements – G-dliness is dressed in worldliness and what do all these things ultimately represent? They represent a G-dly view of reality. We can grasp ohr be kli, but pure ohr/truth we cannot grasp.
Ratzu and shuv: ratzu is due to the brightness of the light. The quest is due to the attraction to this light.
In the world having 100 means you want 200, since he realizes the worthlessness of the 100. he wants more due to the absence of value. Striving in the world is based on a constant unhapiness. In ruchniut if he has 100 or goes to a certain level and he wants to go further it is not due to a lacking, but due to a recognition of the value of what he already has – he goes “from strength to strength”.
After he wants a higher revelation of a higher light. If he had remained in ratzu. Since he came back to shuv with the gilui ohr of that level he now wants to go to a higher level. Now he can grasp what was ungraspable before.
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