AyinBase with R' Paltiel p: 49 7/25/11 Monday 23 Tammuz 5771
Page 49 – about a third into the page (line starts: mikoach hasechel...)
Sechel is rooted in the essence of the nefesh, even beyond the levels of will and pleasure!
Sechel finds and is drawn to 'the truth itself' without any kind of experience.
On the table are a number of objects – this is an element of yichud/union. They are correlated. They all exist within the same reality. This is beyond the space. This is what gives reality to the space... this is the source of the space... at this level all is united. That level of unity is recognized only on a physical level, which is where you have totally separate entities!
For physical objects, being part of this reality is their highest attribute.
This is an element that souls have as opposed to angels. Souls result from the union of bodies.
A tree rooted in the earth, physically may seem like an oddity standing there. But when we note that it is not just growing on its own, just taking from the earth, but rather it is 'part and parcel of the ground' then the unity is seen. The root of the souls is in the 'hidden essence of chochmah'. How can anything be rooted in something concealed? Because this is the fact of where it is created.
The point of atzmus/essence knowing itself is the truth factor – it is not inadvertent. Truth is a must be. Contrary to the perception in our world that, 'first is darkness and then comes light', we say the opposite, 'first comes light' – 'first is truth' and this is the hidden essence of chochmah. Since it has no presence its own it cannot be impressed by anything. What touches sechel – 'also that which does not have a presence of its own: truth/emes'
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