AyinBase with R' Paltiel p: 51 5/26/2011 Thursday 22 Iyar 5771
Page 51 – just below the middle of the page (line starts: haray, ha ohr...)
The light made on the first day, is embedded in the sun. the light we get from the sun, if just viewed as such is not light per se, it is a reflection of the sun and has its effect. It is not the essential light that illuminates the world. When we say light was made on day one, we mean that He brought into what from a physical perspective was dark world, the element of light.
The light element in the world means the whole world changes. From the perspective of darkness, even if it is illuminated by the functional light of the sun, you are still living in a negative world. The light of the first day did not have this element.
With the light of the first day, one could see from 'one side of the world to the other'. Objects did not obscure light. The intent was readily visible.
The essential light was removed, but the principle remains. It is camouflaged by the sun, appearing to come from a ball of fire.
The reason the world persists and we are certain the sun will rise is because that is the G-dly will. It is not based on a natural process. It is not a matter of inertia.
Essential light means a light that is there exclusively by virtue of its purpose rather than a physical process.
The purpose of the essential light is to bring the G-dly purpose into the world.
The light was hidden for the sake that it would be recognized later that there is no natural process. This is hislabshus – enclothement. This is how the Rebbe can sand in the face of an all power authoritarian government and say, 'you have no power over me!'
we keep the fire on the alter by adding to it. But then there is a fire that does not consume its fuel. We can see the world as being maintained by an outside G-dly force. This doesn't change one's perspective of the reality of the world. The other perspective is that everything is directly representative of Him. This is 'ein od milvado' – 'there is none, but him'.
We say the world is G-dly purpose, camouflaged in a natural process.
We live within a natural process, but are not limited by it.
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