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We're looking at the meaning of light. The physical phenomenon is the vessel for the inner nature. What is the perception of the sechel? If there is a First Being, then every element has a element of the Originator.
From a human perspective, one feels that things have to make sense, and when things are confusing one feels that we are strangers in the environment. We have to go further and see that the more we learn, the more we are participants and the more we “live up” and acknowledge being in His world.
The shemesh/sun is an essential illuminator – it's light is not an “add-on” feature. Darkness is not something the sun can relate to, thus whatever the sun “looks at” it translates it into light. This is light: it is representing the essence of the illuminator, outside of it. It comes and says, “there is no such thing as darkness”.
When we see that the light does dissipate, it gives us a new understanding. We see that it is a reflection of the illuminator, but not it itself. It is a reflection of the way the illuminator affects the outside.
We don't see the end of the light of the sun. from a torah view the earth is the center and the sun is far – so if the sun reaches the earth, there is no place it does not reach. The dissipation of the light of the candle is more obvious than that of the light of the sun across distance.
This is also the case with the mentorship/hashpaa of sechel. It is only a reflection of the teacher's sechel and hence it has a limit. When the rav is mashpia sechel he doesn't just give what he knows, but he digs in further and provides an element of “why” he knows – it comes from a living source. He doesn't present an “off the shelf” product.
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