AyinBase with R' Paltiel 10/4/11 Tuesday 6 Tishrei 5771
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| Rainbow on Troy, Photo: Kevin Moshe Rubin |
Page 56 – middle of the page (line starts: “ein...”)
The Rebbe is explaining the atzmus of chochmah (essence of wisdom); we've explained in the past that the external level of the union of chochmah and binah, there is a sense of what drives it – namely that each recognizes the merit of the other. At the internal level there is not the evaluation, just reality itself.
The binah of chochmah relates to the binah of binah, and the chochmah in binah relates to the chochmah of chochmah.
This is telling us that at any level chochmah and binah remain distinct. Each has a different focus and interest. Chochmah is focused on the ein/nothing element and the binah sees the yesh/something.
The nature of chochmah is not to seek to have and grasp the truth that it sees. It is sufficient that it has a perception of truth. Chochmah has bitul/nullity and thus it takes the truth not due to its experience of truth, but rather 'because it is there'.
A rainbow has been put in the clouds as a reminder, even though everyone explains that a rainbow is a natural phenomenon. So at a tangible state 'there is nothing there' just light refracted by moisture in the air. Yet Torah refers to it as a creation of importance. There is not tangibility to this view. From the perception of chochmah this can be easily related to – the sighting is the experience, as opposed the sighting being a means towards experiencing.
In order to relate to that, one has to be quiet refined, because the tendency is 'how does it feel?' The child wants to touch it and ask 'how did this happen?' To apprehend it as it shows itself needs a high level of refinement. We need to allow ourselves to see as the soul sees. Seeing the remarkable beauty of the rainbow is touching on the significance of it, beyond the level of 'it makes me feel good'.
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| Empire State with Sky and Clouds - photo: Kevin Moshe Rubin |
Sechel that is on the level of binah and grasps things by virtue of their composition, cannot relate to 'iron ships flying in the air (airplanes)' yet chochmah knows the world itself is super-worldly and is not limited to composition and here you can relate to flight. So too the ability to relate to the rainbow or the view of the sky.
We don't translate it on a physical level. It is indescribable. If we have the real chochmah then the binah will work to grasp the sighting of this ein – it will work to see, 'how it effects me', which is a level that chochmah does not address.
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| Phote: Kevin Moshe Rubin |
For chochmah it is sufficient that 'I know that it is there', binah works more on the level of, 'how is it true at my level?' And really any level is just an emanation from the higher level. The principle of binah is 'yes, I am at a physical level, but how does this relate to chochmah? I will look up and see how it is connected above.'
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