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We are dealing with a fine issue that cannot be laid out in space and time.
Middot and mochin are separate entities at essence. The separation between them means that they don't mix – while one functions the other doesn't function.
To really sense their difference we need to get a feel for the essence of each, not just their different function. We must divorce ourselves from the idea that mochin and middot develop from below – they are distinct creations from Hashem. Each has tynug and real presence. We have discussed previously the 3 levels of each object and used the thermos as an example. In the nefesh of man there is that element that is conscious of only one thing – its Creator.
We have a sense of having to take care of ourselves, but there is another perception - “in fact I am here, not because I made myself, I was made and 'tho I do things on the practical level, I am being maintained, I just provide some fuel, but life is not of my making, and there is a deep recognition that there is a reality, and I am not aware of myself, just of this reality.”
These two perspectives are mochin and midot. He gave us mochin, through which we know Him. We know Him directly. Knowing the truth unto itself. Mochin is a reflection in man of what He is, middot is a reflection of what He made.
The merit of midot is that it brings the truth of mochin into the world.
Since mochin is more sensative, so too this is the case also in the hidden powers, where there is no hierarchy. But 'tho we had said all powers are equal, and the ohr of the nefesh shines in each the same way, yet from the perspective of essence the inner mochin is above, although both are nefesh qualities and represent nefesh equally.
The fact that there are hidden kochot / kochot ne-elamim means that the activities on the level of function are connected back to his nefesh – he can relate personally to the action.
The essence at the kochot level doesn't have seder and hadraga – they are there since they describe the nefesh to the fullest. Nevertheless in this level there is a subtle hidden order – like we observe with our “sense” - we sense the difference.
We went to the source and saw that mochin senses He is the one who created, an middot is the sense that He created an entity. How does one come to perceive truth – it would seem he is preoccupied with himself. He does this because he realizes the Creator is the one that is holding him up – this is the initial necessary stage. This is the state of mochin. We are created entities, and that is part of our make-up, and that element results in mochin. This means we are invulnerable to external effect. The immediate truth of it is that you are as real as the whole world.
The kochot are reflections of a higher truth.
On the one hand mochin is kochot yet it represents and is dependent on that which is completely above kochot. This is how that which is higher than gilui, the absolute truth is dressed in a koach.
... וחיי עולם
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