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AyinBase with R' Paltiel p: 54 9/2/11 Friday 3 Elul 5771
Everything points to the one truth. That there is only Him.
We cannot perceive chomer harishon or the real nothingness, thus we cannot perceive the whole miracle of creation. It would be a mistake to say, by hearing about the chomer harishon I can understand the miracle of creation!
Our understanding doesn't grasp these levels. The creation of the world is beyond sechel/mind. It is not part of a natural process.
Or you could argue, that the 'bli mah'/nothingness argument makes more sense than the materiality position. The reason it makes more sense is because we have an element of perception beyond sechel. Chochmah provides the light for sechel. Shechel in the dark, 'where you can only know, that which you can touch' is not really sechel and that's the basis for the materiality conception of the world.
If you believe that the cosmos is a competition between bodies (even if He created it), then you don't sense His hand in it. But if you sense the harmony of the movement of the spheres then you see the way He's involved. You cannot study the world independently. We come from a background of studying the world from a worldly approach, but now we say 'the world doesn't even exist' till you see 'what makes it exist' – the G-dly purpose.
We looked at the issue of chomer ha rishon, to get a look at 'alma de hiskasia' – the concealed world. It is concealed, not because, 'I am hiding it', but because it cannot be identified from outside.
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