AyinBase with R' Paltiel 10/17/11 Monday 19 Tishrei 5772
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We are looking at makif/helem/concealed and pnimi/internal/revealed.
Makif is the source of the pnimi level. A mashal/metaphor for this is the rav/teacher and talmid/student.
The rav estimates the student. He relates to him and establishes a relationship. The rav/teacher has to 'translate' what he wants to present into the 'framework/level' of the student.
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He relates to the student and has a sense of what kind of person he is and what he can achieve.
This overview becomes a source of the inner/revealed presentation. This will be received internally by the student.
If the rav is learning for himself (out loud) and not addressing the student, then he won't receive it the same way as if the student is addressed directly, even if the same words are used. The rav is giving to the student beyond the current level of the student. Hence it will be some thing that he could not learn in a book. There has to be a connection for the student to accept what the student is giving.
The rav wants to give to the student. He takes the student's sechel/understanding into his own mind... This is the indicator of the connection between them, otherwise the teacher is 'doing his own thing'.
From this makif comes the pnimi – the revelation.
This is like serving a guest lunch. The guest is hosted. The food is not just, 'made available'.
The guest/student is recognized by his benefactor and that elevates him.
A guest without a good host, may assuage his hunger, but he lacks the elevation of 'this is coming to me. This is deserved. This is part of the relationship'.
“A child knows to call 'father' when he knows the taste of grain”. The relationship and accepting internally is what develops the intellect. The guest benefits fully, when he is served and he eats it.
The pnimi/inner/revealed level is the actual eating. The eating is proceeded by the guest, 'being in your home'.
We make the bracha/blessing, 'borei pri ha-etz (who creates the fruit of the tree)' yet the apple is already there. But we eat it not because we 'found it in the tree'. We eat it and bless, because at this moment 'He is creating it for us to eat', that is to say He is serving it to us as food. This is the makif translated as a pnimi.
One may say, 'the body requires protection and requires to be fed'. There is a direct translation of the makif as pnimi. When the food is served properly, the makif accompanies it. If it is just made available, or tossed onto a plate, this is just for the body and lacks the real element of 'closeness'.
Eating the food finalizes the relationship that has been established.
A guest who visits and leaves doesn't take the relationship with him. But if he eats he takes the relationship with him.
The real mentorship is the makif coming into pnimi.
This is the meaning of the makif being the source for the pnimi.
When you give to a poor person, there is a halacha that you give so he has 'something in his bag' - this changes the pauper, and he walks with the benefactor's sense that there is something to eat. The rav's teaching must change the student. The hashpah/mentorship is successful is when the student, 'walks with it' and has an element of his teacher's perspective.
The student 'accepts' even if he doesn't fully understand, and then he has to 'digest' it.
The makif is instrumental for the student to receive it inwardly. At first the new influence is still in a 'makif' form, since it is initially not fully understood. At first the student receives the perspective in an overall/general way.
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