“One and One is Two” p: 48-9

AyinBase with R' Paltiel p: 48-9 4/22/2011 Friday 18 Nissan 5771

Page 48 – several lines from the end of the page (line starts: gum beyiradatem...) 

The soul is good itself and is thus not affected by coming down into the world.

The fact that can come aspects that are negative is only due to the garments not due to the light of torah itself. The light of torah does not get mixed in the possibility of 'tov ve rah – good and bad'.

Levushim – garments can be understood like this: when it says, 'don't steal' it means something in a worldly context. Since the garment conceals the light that is within it, one can think of the deed as being just practical – till it is misunderstood and misconstrued.

The light of torah itself cannot be affected by the garment.

The misunderstanding results from paying attention to the garment to the exclusion of the light. 

Yet the levush/garment is the means by which the mitzvah is performed in the world, at the same time one needs to take care that it does not conceal the ohr/soul.

At the level of the 'tree of knowledge' it can devolve to a situation of 'good and bad', since it is only a ha-arah/reflection, not an essence. 

It you perceive of a human being evolving from a monkey, then there is no basis for real human intellect. You are left with physicality, and the intangible element of human mindfulness is stripped away.

We say man was made as such, and didn't make himself by encountering the elements.

From a torah view, man is not just created by G-d, but he represents Him in the world. And all that he does must be guided by this principle. Human sechel also acknowledges that he was created, but he goes on to focus on being 'a human being' – it is a ha-arah/reflection and from this position it is possible to descend into gross physicality.

Sunlight is really beyond our world, but the light we get from the sun is only the functional light that allows us to move about. It is not the essence, but the practical level.

elokus/G-dliness does not lend itself to being within limits. For starters Elokus didn't 'come into being'. For instance we talk about space. In our conception it is infinite. It is just 'a presence, without having to be made – the absence of anything else'. Yet, elokus does come into limitations... this is like space allowing for physical/defined objects existing within it. This is because in truth the space that we experience is really a creation.

The G-dliness in the world is a reflection, rather than the essence.