AyinBase with R' Paltiel 9/19/11 Monday 20 Elul 5771
Page 55 – about 5 lines from the end of the page. Line starts, 'mikol makom...'
What is the significance of saying the midot/emotions are present, but fine and spiritual? The principle is that what gives them this quality is due to their bitul. And they have bitul due to the ohr hasechel / light of intellect that is present.
You're told to 'love your neighbor as yourself'. And we are told that at the soul level we are really one entity.
What would be needed for one to see things from a 'soul perspective'? This would be an avodah, till one recognizes the real truth of one existence is not 'what he makes of himself' but was is give from G-d, the elokus element that makes his life worth living.
The main difference between man and animal is because he relates to his Creator and thus has an element of truth in him. Man goes beyond the creation and cleaves to the Creator, thus giving him a total different significance. It takes effort to break through the obstacles and sense this.
It is only in this lowly world where we need to be told to love. At a higher level it is a given reality. This is the meaning of the fine nature of the midot/emotions at the level of binah. It is a novel perception that there are midot in binah. The subtlety is that they are all included in one yet there is a element of metziut/separate entities, but they don't demand attention.
Chochmah is not soul itself – is a revelation of the soul. It enables the soul to be expressed in our conscious practical world.
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