Friday, May 7, 2010

The journey is the destination

AyinBase with R' Paltiel 5/6/10 ThursdayNight 22 Iyar 5770

Page 28. About half way into the main paragraph. Line starts “bechinat chochmah”. 

Torah is chochmah, since it is that which is given it has to be something that can be viewed from outside. The highest level that can be viewed from outside is chochmah.

Pleasure is the core/principle sustenance and essence of everything. Every koach, 'tho it is a koach, is maintained by pleasure.

How does tynug differ from every other koach? Pleasure is considered even more of an essence than ratzon/desire.

In every koach there is a positive and a negative and the koach comes to counter the negative. This is because it is not an essence, it is a function. It is an “action” to fill a void. “Alte rebbe, why did He make the world?” “He did it by oneg/pleasure and on pleasure there is not question since it does not come to fill a void. “ Oneg means the positive without a negative – the essence.

To make a step, there has to be an element of pleasure, just in the walking. Without this oneg element you cannot do anything, no matter how compelling the necessity of the action – it has to have a presence of its own. Despite the fact that it is a koach with a positive and negative it has an essential core.

In everything is oil. This is the essence. This is the oneg.

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... וחיי עולם

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