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The principle of writing is not the paper nor pencil, but the message. The external element is that it can be written on paper.
When the writing is erased, the entire message is contained in the remaining trace. All you have is that something was here. This is the external element of the light. Hishtalshalus/downloads is only possible with this external element of light.
The trace contains a point that incorporates the whole element of light. On the one hand it is a trace and a point, but in an essential way is contained light that cannot relate to world, but it is completely concealed. The trace is reminiscent of the message/writing that had been there.
When the Rebbe Rashab was passing, he was only 60 and it happened suddenly, his bed was brought down to the study hall and he said, “i am going to heaven, and the writings i'm leaving to you” - he's saying, 'I'm going above, but I'm staying here with you since I am in the writings.' The trace shows that there was spillage not of ink, but of a soul here.
In our mashal/metaphor the writing is erased, because it was too much – too powerful – too revealing.
Behelem/hidden means, not that you can't see it, but that it is an allusion to it.
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| P 45 ayinbase - Rebbe Rashab (right click to enlarge) |
The Baal Shem Tov says that this world is literally infinite – we will never get to the bottom of the secrets and resources that He implanted in the earth. Not so long ago there was a suggestion to close the US patent office! People felt that everything had already been invented! Now we see new developments/inventions every 5 minutes!
The G-dly element in the world is not contained in the world – it is the truth of the wold. Elokus is behelem. It is hidden and sustains the world from a higher perspective. From a truth perspective there is contained in the reshima/trace the origin of the world.
Science speaks on a relative level, Torah on an absolute level. Torah doesn't speak in a worldly context.
In general to define what is contained in this trace: the entire aspect of the ohr that will ultimately be revealed in worlds.
The tzimzum is a reduction to a point, but like the treasure house that is opened, and all who come to the window receive, there is a Giver and a recipient. If the walls of the treasure house were removed there would be no Giver and receiver. We would be like fish in the sea.
The sense of well being in getting your paycheck is that 'there is more where this came from' – you are part of a going concern – this may be a tiny trickle, but it is the real thing. There is a real resource behind tzimzum. This is a sense of reality. This is an ohr not a metziut. If one becomes aware of the world only, without the ohr, then there is the element of, 'they die from lack of chochmah...'
The serpent was cursed. First you will move on your belly – he had legs (he was the highest of all animals) that were removed. And secondly you will eat dust.
So from a practical perspective where is the curse? He's on his belly – he can't fall! And secondly he has an abundance of food. He's crawling on his food/dust. But that's the curese. He has everything within a worldly context. He has severed his relationship to his Creator. He is the most vicious of all the creatures. He doesn't need a reason to bite. He is venomous. Why is he so angry?! Because he has everything, but his abundance lacks infinity – it is not real to him. It lacks the truth.
Like getting something for free, there is a sense of it came from nowhere. This is what the serpent lacks. For the human everything comes from 'Nowhere'.
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