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Rebbe is explaining how there can be the combination of opposites. Although ratzu consists of a desire to know Him, nevertheless within this desire is the ability to “put itself aside”.
If someone likes something very much – this is an experience at the kochot level and one could say he should stay above this, but this is not the “tokef haratzu” - its strength in this case is from the nefesh – the nefesh is a flame/fire.
Sechel, even at the most profound level, deals with finite things. One may think, he identifies elokus with his sechel and at the same time recognizes the limitations of sechel and he wants to go beyond it – but now it sounds like an appetite like any other. But this does not fully capture the tokef haratzu – the strength of the urge. Here the sechel is just opening the gateways to the nefesh. Hanachat atzmuso – putting oneself aside here – is putting aside the nefesh to do shuv.
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