Page 44 – at the top of the second paragraph.
We are looking at hashpaa gashmi and ruchni (spiritual and physical influence/mentorship).
When we have an insight of chochmah, we do not know it's origin.
There was a period of philosophy called sophists, who needed a structure and verbal articulation for something to be real. They were satisfied with, 'sound bites'. But that's not sechel.
Chochmah comes from ayin/nothing. A physical metaphor for chochmah is sight. You see objects without coming into contact with them. You don't touch the object, but your experience is the most true. This is the 'nothing' element. There is nothing more true than ayin. It is a self-contained, unchallengeable truth. The axiom in mathematics is based on intelligence, and not on proof.
Ayin needs no substantiation and there are no questions against it.
Imagination is a flash based on yeshus. Ayin/chochmah is a flash based on bitul.
Chochmah is the first spark of the G-dly nothingness that is the source of the world.
It is important to understand, that we live in a physical world and the first experience is physicality and any form is seen as secondary to the primary physical presence. The wood is basic and the table is secondary. We come and say the opposite is true – 'the wood is null-and-void, the real thing that was created during the 6 days of creation was the table, wood was just the material that was used for this purpose'.
Give a dollar to a poor man – we call this chesed/tzeddakah. The same movement can also take from him. The reality of the hand is directed by something intangible – the chesed, which cannot be seen.
Chochmah is also ayin/nothing. But it is nothing in a form that can provide for something..
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