“Not something that he, himself can understand” p: 47

Sketch of Moshe, by Hershel Boncheck

AyinBase with R' Paltiel p: 47 6/28/11 Tuesday 26 Sivan 5771 

Page 47 – at end of first line from the top of the page (line starts: mehut...)

Stepping back slightly: we are saying that the sechel/mind that the angels have is only a reflection. In fact sechel overall is a reflection – not essence.

Sechel/mind is not the ability to maneuver mental constructs, but rather the conception of reality itself.

'No thought can grasp Him at all' – an thus sechel/mind and understanding is not on the level of essence.

Sechel even at the higher level is not at a primary level. Thus it is a reflection.

Elokus/G-dliness is known not by observation. Sechel is not an imaginary aspect. One may say, 'well here's a world, and thus there is a Creator, and I start projecting what He is like this and like that....', but that is just imagining and projecting. Chochmah goes further and has a direct relating. Hasaga in elokus/G-dliness is a reverse process. Elokus is a primary presence and it is omnipresent. So in essence it is not sechel/mind nor a reflection.

The reason we know it is by virtue of its omnipresence. We know it before comprehension. hasaga/understanding comes later at a secondary level...

Though understanding in general is only a reflection, but since understanding in Elokus is in omnipresence, one my think it is essential. But the level of G-dliness that is grasped is only a reflection and His essence cannot be grasped.

There is essence, a G-dly essence in man. We have metaphors to look at this, but it cannot be grasped. A man's malchus extends to every corner of his home, but it cannot be defined, nor grasped.

A thing is not an etzem/essence. The essence is in the source. The fact that He creates it gives it essence. The fact that a man is present even when he is not present is not something that he himself can understand, and thus he may deny it and start to live more on an experiential level rather than on an essential level. We cannot grasp the eternity and essential nature of ourselves.