Constant Pleasure! p: 49

AyinBase with R' Paltiel p: 49 5/5/2011 Thursday 1 Iyar 5771

Page 49 – lower third of the page (line starts: mem'mem – mikol makom...)

We are looking at how souls are essential and can hence contain essential lights. The light as it is unto itself, not how it is on a functional level.

This talks to how animals and humans differ. Animals behave reactively. They see all from how it affects it. Humans recognize reality itself and then he chooses with which elements of reality he want to associate.

A human is distinct even at enushi/human level, never mind the levels of torah and mitzvot!

neshamas/souls receive the essential light of elokus/G-dliness. The torah gives for example civil laws, 'if you borrow you must repay' – gemara says, 'paying your debts is a mitzvah'. A mitzvah? Didn't you owe him? Yes, but we're talking about things completely independent of the subjects! The soul can relate to these essential lights – truth at a G-dly level.

Inside the text: similarly to how the soul relates to Torah, the revelations of the Garden of Eden, where the tzaddikim sit in a circle, with their crowns on their heads and delight in the shine of the shchinah/G-dly presence. This is fully satisfying. What kind of pleasure is it? Don't we say 'constant pleasure is not pleasure!'

This is not pleasure that merely is satisfying to them, which has its limits, it is a recognition of the essence of G-dliness and there, there are no limits!

Usually to grasp things you need to find its edge and definition. But G-dliness has no edges. They have pleasure due to the truth. The fact that it is truth is the enticement! Saying, 'one must be intellectually honest' is the most dishonest statement! It has to do with one's ego. 'the truth because it is the truth' is a soul quality. This is above definition and edges.

The truth about something has a functional element. But truth because it is truth is at a different level that is beyond function. This is not something that we can approach with our coarse worldly thought process, because our word is inherently false – everything in our world is just a creation and has to have a reason for why it is there.

Nefesh is a matter of truth.

How do we relate to this?

It is beyond our grasp. For us the world is our reality and now we are talking about something beyond world! But if you realize the reality is not world – it is the King of the world, and that this is a presence identified exclusively by the King, then you can start to get some sense...

In the time to come reality will be defined by the presence of the King – not the presence of the world.

We had said before, a human has many faculties, and in his home there are many things. Then there is an element in his home that relates to none of the faculties, but to the fact that it is his home. Like if someone enters the home uninvited, he is called an intruder. This is an element of malchus. A man is a king in his home. It has to do with the truth of this person.

This is what the world represents, the truth of a G-dly presence.