AyinBase with R' Paltiel 12/14/2010 Tuesday 7 Tevet 5771 Click on the icon (in tool bar on the right) to see text.
Page 39 – a third from the top of the page (line starts “haba mizeh...”)
The rebbe is saying that in all sichlim and more so in the sechel hahuli ha-atzmi, there is a recognition of the essence of the thing itself. This is knowing something from its own reality as opposed to how it presents itself.
This is knowing an essential truth. An essential truth can never be fully expressed.
The Ari Zal said that he would have taken 80 years and still not have revealed the essence of what he saw.
Essence is by definition above sechel. Yet we say there is a koach that sees the essence (the koach ha hiuli ha atzmi). How can sechel see what is above it?! This is like physical sight – we don't see reality since we grasp and understand it – we see it due to the finesse and refinement of the eye. The eye is transparent – it allows for the light to come through – your activity is not needed. As soon as you try to express it then you are a participant talking about what you see, rather than what it is.
Through bitul sechel sees essence. Ultimately this bitul is the real value of sechel. This is where sechel is different from midot.
Chochmah is where it is all bitul – no personal participation. Binah is where you start to grasp it. Daas is where you relate it to yourself.
In our prayers (of Yom Kippur / Rosh Hashanah) we say that in the future “every creature will know that You are the Creator. And beyond this it will know that You created it – it will know the essence of what is created.” Comprehension in the future will be in a totally different manner. “There will be a knowing of Me.”
In the future we will know the Torah, by knowing Him. We will know it from inside out. The mitzvot will not have to be commanded – it will be obvious. There will be hasaga in mehus ha-davar.
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