The Simple Reality p: 51

AyinBase with R' Paltiel p: 51 5/20/2011 Friday 15 Iyar 5771

Page 51 – about middle of the page (line starts: ein sof )

Souls of Israel are able to draw down the essential light.

This is like the 2 levels of recognizing the King. One is taking on his Kingship, the other is accepting His decrees.

Kabalos hamalchus/recognition of the King, is not an involvement with the person, nor a recognition of the effect of the King, the essential light of, 'here is the King'.

One is modest even when alone, and even in a place where one cannot think of kedusha/holiness. This is not human decency. This is because He is everywhere! This is ohr atzmi – not a light that can be translated in human terms. It is the simple reality.

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Only the souls of Israel can give cognizance to this. 

The fact that there is right and wrong is all due to the fact that there is an essence, that there is a King. If you accept the foolishness of the theory of a human being originating as an evolutionary entity, then there is no right and wrong.

Light as it land in the vessel is not etzem – it gives a message of its own. This is the functional element. Yet all that it is saying is that there is one thing – the essence.

Essence does not have to be proclaimed. It is hidden not because it is concealed, but only because it cannot be grasped. It is a fundamental presence that does not make itself known by its activity. Hence the light that declares the essence, is already on a completely different level.

Father and son we say are one thing. And then there is the son's recognition of the father. Recognition is after the fact. The fact, the reality comes first and is beyond the declaration.

The more essential the light, the less it has a presence.

Hearing is a translation – putting the object into words – transportation into a different world.

Crown Heights, Dancing in the streets, Simchat beit Hashoevah

Sight is dependent on the object – on 'what you see'. Sight is without a process – if there is a process, then it is not sight. Hence the difference between the eye and the ear, is that the ear is a participant in receiving the message, the eye is not involved in a process – it is a clear channel... Thus light without presence is what provides for sight.  

Thus the real light is heder hametziut – without presence.

The light brings a pure truth by being a non-entity. Essence brings reality by being a metziut/something. Pure truth is a fundamental reality. It is a metziut and pure.

The fact that light can shine everywhere, can be understood by saying it is a non-presence. But we say the Creator is everywhere, and that's a metziut, a yesh and a yesh emiti.