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The Rebbe explains that the ohr chozer is from the touching of the the essence. And then this kind of light results. The etzem is touched/opposed and a new light comes into being. It is due to the reaction of the essence itself.
The negative is more power than a positive in eliciting the light from the essence. The light is created by the existence of the essence and is not a hamshacha – it has a very powerful essence quality.
There is a constant growth and “walk” in a person, this is like a baal tshuvah. There has to be a fundamental transformation that requires an ohr chozer type of effect. He wants “this” not because this is better than that. When you walk you put your fist foot forward, and you have a reason, but the second step is beyond reason, it is just, “this is where I want to be”.
Ohr chozer: we did not emphasis last review that the difference is not in the light itself, but in the manner in which it comes. Here we explained that the way that it comes is reavealing another element. Usually light comes from sechel. Here there light comes, not because it makes sense. Koach hamaskil deals with what makes sense. It translates the essence into it's level. Here the light is coming not from the sechel level, but from the essence itself. The student receives a light that originated in essence.
Anything that comes at the level of sechel is open for debate.
Anything essential is beyond debate. Sechel has a process and a way of getting to know something. Any thing found out is open to debate. Koach hahihuli ha atzmi, is beyond process. It is knowing without process. There is no process in the human being where he finds out he's a human being. A child can herd a whole herd of horses.
The effect of the ohr chozer is to change the student entirely. Every person knows that he is a human being, and this knowledge is not real knowledge. That the child knows that he can guide the horse is not from the koach ha sechel.
This is an element that, “preceded my existence, because this is what G-d wanted me to be”.
The student needs a vessel for this light. A vessel that will allow him to be nullified to it. Understanding is not the big enough vessel. The keli is of an essential quality.
Then the student can accept the light and as a result there is a great increase in revelation of light. “He opens up – he has a new view – he has a new capacity for revelation of light”.
We've said that sight has the unique capacity to reveal the truth of the object, not just it's presence. This is revealed only to an human being – not to an animal. Why does the animal not see it? Because the human being has a different capacity for recognizing truth. While we have been saying that sechel is the faculty that recognizes this, where is the recognition of truth? The background of chochmah is that there is a truth. Where do I get that knowledge from? That knowledge is the essence of the human soul.
This is a chossid. He receives the Rebbe. The essence of the chossid is the Rebbe. This is true with us from the beginning of time. Not just from the time of the Baal Shem Tov.
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