Page 55 – about a third from the end of the page. Line starts, 'ha-haskalah...'
Both chochmah and binah are responsible for hishtalshalus, but chochmah is more distant.
The middot/emotions come into being, not from the point of mind, but from the expanse... How does this relate? We need a more general perspective. Where do chochmah and binah come from? We tend to see things through chochmah chitzoni / external mind and not with the inner chochmah which is the living nefesh/soul perspective. Middot come from chochmah and binah and not from that which precedes them. There is a great emphasis on sechel because it is the distinction between the human being and all other creations. The human reaches up to the source of existence and life.
At that source he finds chochmah and binah. Both of them are expressions of the nefesh/soul – they are not the soul itself. Chochmah is expressed as a point and binah expands it to an actual presence. Middot are the actual experience of a worldly presence. Even in terms of human interaction chesed/love and gevurah/severity are found... The basis of the love is a 'fundamental relationship and participation in a bigger truth...'
Love for a dog and love for a pet rock are closer than any human relationship. Among human beings there is a fundamental truth to their relationship. It is base on a fundamental unity and includes all the midot/emotions. Love for a dog is on the surface and on the surface only.
So when we talk of love and fear we must know that it is derived from something fundamental.
On the level of chochmah there is already the distinction of entities – above that 'all is unified'. Above chochmah there are no separate entities. Awareness has to do with multiplicity. The human beings recognize the fundamental relationship with each other.
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