AyinBase with R' Paltiel p: 51 5/18/2011 WednesdayNight 14 Iyar 5771
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How did we get to talking about these topics? We are looking for clarity on the matter of neshamot/souls and how they are one with G-d. This is in contrast with how everything else is created. Souls are a different entity.
We talked about breathing to have a sense of how souls, though identifiable individually are really part of G-d Himself.
Creations, unlike souls are reflections of G-dliness.
The presence of the creation is not the presence of the Creator. It is just a reflection. But the creation has nothing except what the Creator provides for it! The answer is that what is provided is not a G-dly faculty, but a reflection of His faculty. The created entity testifies that He has the power to create.
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They (creations) testify; they are not Him itself. The souls don't testify, they are G-dly life itself – there is not separation.
The light flowing from the sun is only a show of the power of the sun – it is not the light as it is inside the sun itself.
To create the created entities, He has to absent himself, so you cannot tell He's making the objects. Something that is dependent on 'presence' cannot do this. What can effect and not be presence. He is ein od. Even in absence He is also present. And this is represented in metziut yesh. Hence the creation, that appears most self-sufficient bears the greatest testimony to Him.
Ein od means, there is none other. This is to say if there is a yesh, and nothing else, and here the entity points out to a Maker. And that this Maker, functions in abstentia.
He has not source and so can make something that appears to have no source.
The air that we breathe is what gives us life. It is part of the entire environment. The true experience of life is not from the small amounts of air. It is from the fact that it is part of the overall atmosphere. We breathe by virtue of the fact of atmospheric pressure. We create a vaccum and the air is pushed in – so we live from the overall openess. The experience of the soul is the same. Each person has his own soul, but his soul is part of the overall presence of the the Living G-d!
Breathing is like life. It is a metaphor for souls and G-d. The air in the lungs is part of the overall air. So too the soul in the body is part of the Living – G-d.
This is similar to father and child. The son is from the essential light of the father, and is a full fledged presence, yet it is the same essence.
There's a ruling that you should say something in the name of the one who said it originally.
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