“When Do You Have the Real Thing? ” p: 49

AyinBase with R' Paltiel p: 49 7/27/11 Wednesday 25 Tammuz 5771 

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The souls are the inner intent. The creation of the world has an ulterior motive – the world has the intent of being made for the souls, not for itself. The worlds, with all their detail are only external. The presence of the world consists of metziut. The inner intent in intangible and it is the truth.

To get a sense of the inner/pnimius and external/chitzoni one can think of the sun. the light is the real creation. But the world thinks of the sun as being the real creation, since it is more tangible. Truth is the opposite. Light is the real creation and it preceded the sun. Later the light was associated with the sun. the whole point is the light not the sun. 

The sun persists not due to itself, but due to the light. The light could not be absent. So for the sake of the light, the sun is maintained. This is like the Rambam says, 'from the Truth of His presence all other entities came to be'. When do you have the real thing? When you can relate it to His truth. In the world it is all 'cause and effect'. So when do you have a real thing? Only in Torah and the souls of Israel.

The Rambam

The souls are from His inner intent. They are an element of this inner intent.

The souls come from essence/mehus. Light or reflection does not have a real mehus. There the mehus is the source of the light.

Everything comes from Ein Sof, but they have a tangible presence and effects. Souls are different from everything in the world. They are from the 'real thing', from Mehus ein sof, that is not reflective of anything.

A baby is a new creation. So too the soul is a real entity originating in the Father. The soul is atzmi/essential and not a reflection. The soul exists on its own resources. There is no interdependence.

We have a table here. It is strong, but there is a limit to the amount of weight it can bear. A rock can maintain a greater weight. The rock is not a structure, it is a metaphor for something more essential. The analog here is the soul. The soul is like a rock. It understands G-dliness not due to its faculties, but due to what it is.

During the moment of the giving of Torah at Sinai, the souls left the bodies (due to the tenuous connection), but they were not affected, they were enhanced by the experience and can take any revelation. Angels, as great as they are, cannot sustain that kind of revelation.

Only souls can be challenged by klipa and not be overcome. They come to this world and are ultimately victorious.

Chochmah of torah, is not about how to arrange stuff, it is a reality itself and the fact that it can bring peace to the world is not due to mediation, but due to being the channel of G-dliness into the world.