Like One p: 45

AyinBase with R' Paltiel p: 45 6/5/2011 Sunday 3 Sivan 5771

Page 45 – 2^nd line from the top of the page. (line starts: shebetachton...)

The creation of the world can only be from just the reflection/ha-arah that lacks essence.

This is clarified by looking at the situation of mentor and mentee. The mentor gives the external element of his mind to the student. More than that would not be acceptable to the student.

The mashpia/mentor gives only the external level. 

This is like him teaching 1+1 and he has to point out that there are two 'ones', but later he explains that there is a joining and now you can see 1 plus 1 is 2. there is a new entity. This is like when 10 Jews get together it is a new entity, with such holiness that no angel can tolerate.

The teacher presents from the basic practical terms of 1 and 1. This external level is but a ha-arah /reflection of the pnimius. It is that level of the pnimius/essence that can affect the outside. 

Everything in the world has to have been 'put-together' – the Creator doesn't have this quality at all. About the world one asks, 'where did it come from?' and you find the answer, 'G-d make the world' and to ask, 'who made G-d?' is not to provide an answer, it is to delay the question.

G-d is primary truth and does not need an explanation of 'how come he's here?'

it is a clear human recognition. We got into this question and we'll see it through. The life of the soul that comes into the body is a reflection/ha-arah. It doe not (yet) have eternal life. It has 'symtoms of life' that come from the soul.

P 45, AyinBase, Rebbe Rashab (right click to enlarge)

Every person feels this. There are levels of sensitivity. Then there is chochmah. This is a unique faculty. All the others have a functional element. Chochmah is closest to life itself – soul. It has no functionality. It is the recognition of the 'fact that I am alive and that there is truth in the fact of life. I seek to see the real life of the world, just like I see the truth in myself. I seek the essence of life in all things.' 

Chochmah is the purest of the faculties and thus it tells one, 'I am not looking at the real thing, all this is not talking about itself, there is a Owner to this palace/world. What does all this movement stand for? It tells me there is a Master. It tells me there is significance to this world.'

We ask the living question of 'what is the meaning of what I see?'

Chochmah answers, 'I choose the King / Anah nasiv Malkah – living in the world has purpose, He make it and that's all I need, that is infinity itself!'

'Nothingness' represents the presence of the King (as do all objects) – He provides for life – Now everything makes sense and we have life. 

The external level of 1 plus 1 is 2 is external, but not separate from the higher truth that is available to the teacher. The mashpia presents something that is external but not divorced from the essence. The inner level is hidden, not removed.

The Rebbe explains about how you approach a baal tshuvah, 'do this one mitzvah', but don't imply this is the only one. 'if you do this mitzvah, this is a direct connection, start here and see how your mind develops' – then you are giving him a true mitzvah. If you say, 'do this one good thing and that's all', then you misrepresent the truth.

The world with all its roughness and limits ultimately contains chayut from atzmus ein sof.

Tzimzum is the aspect of hiding the inner level. External level is the creation of the idea that can be shared. The inner level is the truth of the matter – the way it is essentially. In fact there is only one source for everything. Externally this is a discovery. Internally this is a direct perspective.

How is the external reality made? He hides the light altogether. No revelation. No statements. After that the there is a beginning of the revelation of light. Previously there was no such thing as 'no light'. Now there is light being revealed into darkness.

Malchus is representative of the truth of the essence. This is reflected in the human being, who is the greatest testimony to His presence in the world. A man has his home and his domain. All the objects in the home have a functional purpose, then there is the presence of the human being – this is beyond the functional level. This is representative of the inner element of the person.

Before the tzimzum there was light everywhere – no place for world. Then this was withdrawn and now it is being revealed again that 'there is a King here'. This is revealing from concealment which means we can differentiate between inner and external.

If you're born knowing everything, then you don't know anything. We know it when we get to know it.  The we know where it came from.  We know the One who gave it.