Breathing and Thinking p: 42

AyinBase with R' Paltiel p:42 3/3/2011 Thursday 27 AdarAleph 5771

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Page 42 – 3 lines from the end of second paragraph (line starts “kuli...”).

Sight, is like chochmah and it sees whatever there is to see. It does not discriminate and it sees with great clarity. This is because of its bitul/humility. This is why it is the primary quality that connects a person to the world.

On the other hand in sight there is still the element of transition, 'there is this article and I get to see it'. This is not a perfect unity, unlike a person knowing himself. This is perfect bitul - 'I am receiving, but there is still an 'I' even though I am not receving it through my own presence like I do in the sense of touch, sight has a direct connect, but it is a connect'.

This is like the creatures in the sea. On the land creatures stand on their own feet. In the sea the creatures also eat and function, but they are continually within the sea. They are like the eye that sees. The fish has ever open eyes. They know of their existence, but they are nullified to the sea.

Speech is not just a direct flow from the soul. It is a whole process. He speaks that which exists within himself, even if he learned it from another. It has to go through his thought process and one has to prepare it in mind, yet the thought and speech level are not of the same content/format. Speech is a metziut. Yam has keilim katanim, since it lacks independent entities. It is like submerging a cup in a lake – it is no longer a real keili. The vessel no longer demarcates the content.

There are different levels of vessels/keilim. There are 'letters of thought' that are also vessels – vessels of thought – but they flow from the subject of thought itself. The 'vessel' element is that you can isolate the idea to think about it.

One breathes all the time. This is representative of life – it is constant – it is the presence of the neshamah. It is the physical experience of life. Though there is an action, an inhalation and exhalation, yet it is in reality a process of 'opening up' and the air flows in – air pressure fills the vacuum – we don't create life, we accept life.

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Usually we are not aware of our breathing, and when we become aware of it we know we are creatures of the land. The sea creatures have water that flows over their gills – they are even less aware (not aware) they are in complete unity, but we have a level of independence and say, 'I'm breathing'.



The tzaddik lives like a fish – we call them, 'fish of the sea'. He ignores nothing. Nothing escapes his glance. Like the baal shem says, 'everything one sees is an instruction from above.'

This has been a continuation and resolution of yesterday's class.