The eye does not grasp what it sees

AyinBase with R' Paltiel 5/30/10 Sunday 17 Sivan 5770

Page 30. Around the lower third of the page. Line starts, “bechochmah...”

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This ohr ein sof that cannot be contained in a vessel can be contained in chochmah. And this is internalized in the chochmah. Binah seems to be the real keili, not chochmah. Hislabshut be pnimiut, means internalized, but chochmah is bitul, thus a non entity and doesn't grasp anything. The eye is the best illustration of chochmah. The eye does not grasp what it sees – it sees where it is.

So it is not grasped like it is in binah. Binah translates the sechel to its own terms. But sechel holds ohr ein sof as it is – it comes to life just like the ohr ein sof itself. The chochmah does not become an etzem, but it is a receptacle for ohrot atzmi-im. Ohr ein sof and oneg here are the same thing. It becomes alive, has to do with oneg, which is in every koach. Oneg is reprentative of etzem. Just like etzem is a true presence, oneg also has this quality. Chochmah is a keili for oneg. This oneg is disseminated downwards to all the kochot.

All chayut comes from the nefesh, but it first enters the chochmah and from there it is disseminated to the rest of the person.

Chochmah relates not to its experience, but to the object of its perception – this is its bitul.

Malchus is an illustration of revelation. All the activity in the kingdom relates back to the king. Chochmah, since it is in gilui has an element of malchus. Chochmah has the ohr ein sof and all the details are contained in it. If etzem cannot come down into the pratim, how is chochmah able to do it? Due to malchus.

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Atzilus is a world, but not in the full sense, just like chochmah is not a choach in the full sense of the world.



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