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The student becomes a bar sechel on his own. He has the faculty of sechel inherently. This is developed and he starts to function under the understanding and guidance of sechel. This actuallly begins at a very young age.
A foal walks by instinct. The child learns a first step by processing it through his sechel. A human being has to know what he's doing. Don't take chips according to a fist-full, take the amount you need using your fingers. This brings out the inherent sechel.
We said that in hashpaa hasechel / mindful mentorship there can be great progress, but only if the student is receptive. The rav cannot create sechel in the talmid.
In the other mode of hashpaa, when he gives birth, there is created a sechel from inception.
In hashpaa of sechel, the influence comes not from the sechel itself, but from the obversation of the sechel which the teacher then presents to the student. This means it has an element of externality. The sechel itself does not define, nor observe itself. The rav sees and understands and he re formats this to present it to the talmid.
Ohr ha sechel is from the koach ha maskil. This is like the way a person has to learn to eat with sechel. The reason that it is an imperative, and satisfying is because it is rooted in what a person is. The koach hamaskil demands that before approaching anything one needs to consider it and do it in a human way. One perceives that there is a right and wrong way to do things.
Sechel is not instinctive – it has to go through a process and being shown the right way is helpful. One may grow up in the “wilds” but his own sensitivities may lead to a human way of doing things.
Sechel cannot relate to the final fact / physical fact – it relates to the inception. Sechel relates to a sechel environment – that things have a meaningful presence.
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