“'You Belong Everywhere” p: 54

AyinBase with R' Paltiel p: 54 9/4/11 Sunday 5 Elul 5771 

Page 54 – lower third of the page – line starts, 'nikrah...'

After the Fabrengen yesterday someone said that it is too high for us. “Well, it takes a life time of work, but it is crucial to note that the neshamah is the truth and we must live up to it”.

In the world of Briah, alma de hiskasia (hidden world), a revelation of G-dliness is seen – it shines. We see things in the world and say, 'what's it doing here?' - but when there is a revelation of G-dliness one doesn't ask 'what's this about' – it is truth itself. It shines and illuminates and does away with the question. When there is no 'shine of G-dliness', then you have the question and you rely on the tangible status.  

Elokus is a reality that does not need substantiation. Being that it is the first presence, that comes from the nothingness of G-dliness. The 'first something' (yesh ha rishon) contains the something that is contained in the nothingness/ein. On our world darkness it the primal state. This darkness is actually representing the ein ha eloki. The ein ha eloki is not nothing, it is the essence of the truth of presence and does not need to be defined in order to be. You see the potential for presence, though it is concealed in the truth of its presence.

Movement is natural for the human being. Not that movement is caused by necessity. Actually human movement is based on the fact that he is not limited to the place where he is. This is the suffering of imprisonment – he is deprived of the truth of living in the 'entire reality'. 

This is like saying, 'though I am in this particular place I am really everywhere'. This is a concealed truth – like darkness – it is the truth of the soul being G-dly, but this is beyond definition. 

This total reality, this ein – nothingness/darkness of the human soul, is what creates the 'movement' described above.

p 54, R' Rashab, Ayin Base, lower half

He put all reality into the 'heart of man' – man senses total belonging – relating to all dimensions. He goes outside and looks, North, South, East and West – he looks at this domain, the total space – but he looks in each direction – these separate looks/directions are like the revelation of this greater reality. You're seeing an aspect of the infinite. You're seeing an aspect of 'you belong everywhere'.

This is like a stamp engraved on a precious stone. The brighness of the stone is there, to the extent that the letters are not really that obvious, but then when you imprint this stamp on wax, there the brightness of the stone is not present and the letters are now more overt. This is like the world of briah – because of its closeness to the G-dly Nothingness, relative to anything outside or below this is seen as darkness – the letters are not discernible. From outside there's nothing to see.

This blog is called, 'Stand, Walk and Jump' – these are all levels of service/progress. Here we are saying that the normal work for us is on the level of 'walking'. We need to know, 'how we got there'. If you don't have that then you aren't really at the destination. We develop back from the words of speech (the written words of our discourse), back into thought, and further back in the the ein/source of the thoughts (which are like letters on a precious stone). The level of 'jumping' is a grant from Above, and is associated with Pesach and emunah/faith.

In Tanya the Rebbe says, 'since the world was created yesh from ein – something from nothing, so hence it tends to revert back to nothing but is held in existence by Him.' if a craftsman makes a vessel then it stands alone. When He makes the world from nothingness then it has no material basis and hence He needs to keep it in existence.

The reason we can relate to this logic is because at the level of our soul, we readily see that the 'world doesn't maintain itself'. The soul enables us to relate to this logic. In speech we follow the logic and just allude to the truth. In thought, there the nothingness shines and we see the truth of it. But we have to get there through the logic. And we see it the way the neshamah see it – except this truth is put into 'letters' of thought. Thought is like the letters engraved on the stone. We need the logical process to accept the truth we know inherently.