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What do we mean by saying that the essence of the soul is without limit?
A house is built in space and demarcates the space. The space itself does not change by being enclosed in a house or being occupied by masonry and timber. Nothing can capture the space. The space remains unlimited. This is true from a worldly approach and a G-dly approach.
The reason there is such a thing as unlimited presence and possibility is because of the G-dly principle. From a natural perspective everything has a limit. The “nothingness” of space, which is also acknowledged in a worldly perspective, is a G-dly creation.
Just as we understand that space is limitless, and is an essence and has no limit to how it can be used, and cannot be captured, this is our mashal/metaphor for essence and bli gvul. Sechel has a limit, but there is no limit to how much sechel can be drawn from the nefesh.
Essence is without limit.
Sechel draws from the essence, which is not sechel at all, by the power of the ohr chozer (reflective light).
Ohr chozer (reflective light) is when there is an opposite approach. The regular sechel process is within a context, but the talmid that makes wise his teacher, is different. He says, “i have no idea what my rav is talking about, but I will work on it till I get it!” He asks questions from outside the sechel. Yet the student has the intent of understanding, so when he says, “what's going on?” then he elicits a new sechel from the teacher.
“I talk to students who have no idea about what marriage is. It is a deep human thing and they don't get it. They say, 'everyone does it, so too us...' they just don't have a concept of it. So I say to them, 'project in your mind that you lived your life and never married' then they (mostly) get it. They see the essential nature of marriage, by being hit in the essence in this way and this elicits a response from the essence.”
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