Torah is rooted in the essential pleasure, where it has not yet come down to any level of expression!
At this level it is hidden in the essence. At the level of essence there is a simple unity. There is no multiplicity, so how is tynug a defined entity? In our experience we see things emerging due to some external stimuli. We cannot conceive of the will of the nefesh coming from itself. This is a ratzon atzmi. Sechel cannot comprehend it. Sechel can only grasp things in some kind of natural order.
“I will be for him a plaything/enjoyment” - the torah is at the level of essential plaything/enjoyment. There is something that etzem enjoys. And this plaything is of that level, originating there.
What was He doing before He made the world? Was he bored stiff? This is a valid question for an entity like ourselves that is not an essential presence.
“Your laws are like songs to me”, said King David to Hashem. Your laws are my greatest pleasure. Our sages say he was punished for this statement. Why? Song is an expression of excitement of pleasure in the nefesh. This is an inner pleasure, not from some external source. The Levis would sing in the Temple at the time of service. This is like the pleasure of chochmah. On the one hand chochmah is a koach, on the other hand it is a koach that does not have its own form/presence. Sight is a mashal for this since it is a clear channel. Why not say the songs are like tynug, why say chochmah? This is because for something to be revealed on the outside through song, it must come through chochmah.
This is the first moment of consciousness.
Thus, this is the message of King David – that he recognized the essential/concealed pleasure that is in torah. Chochmah is able to sense that which is hidden. So why was he punished? Hashem said to him, “you call the laws songs?! You are focusing on an external element.”
But we saw it is a very high level, so why the reprimand?
Stay tuned for the answer.
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... וחיי עולם
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