“What is the Effect?” p: 57

AyinBase with R' Paltiel 10/17/11 Sunday 19 Tishrei 5772 

Page 57 – 9 lines from top of the page (line starts: “lo...”)

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Oneg/pleasure is like ecstasy that is beyond the world. Simcha/joy is revelation of G-dliness within the world. These opening remarks (see video below) are follow up to the fabrengen last night and the time of sukkot (sukkos) in general.

p 57, AyinBase, Rebbe Rashab

Back inside the text p 57 [9 lines from top of the page (line starts: “lo...”)]. We explained when the rav/teacher is mentoring the student he has to first evaluate the keilim/vessels of the student. This kind of mentorship is not just the usual 'student and teacher' relationship where the teacher knows what the student does not and will impart info. We are talking about a different kind of relationship, like mentorship, where there is an affect on the student/recipient.

What is the effect? We speak of light. And the light of sechel/mind. We not the fundamental difference between candle light and sunlight. From a candle there is a dark spot and a wick getting consumed, there is a logical process. This is the functional light, not the essence of light.

The sun is different. There is no wick. It is 'through and through' light. Darkness doesn't exist there. It is the essence of light. We get a reflection - a ha-arah that is the functional element from the sun. but along with the functional light the sun also provides an element of its own essence.

The sense we have with day time is that it comes from a true essential light. Even though the world is dark, we are exposed by the sun to an element of itself.

Similarly the rav is mentoring the student on the functional level, and gives information, but the true import here is that he gives him a sense of 'where it came from'. He gives part of himself.

The rav/teacher presents something that is beyond the understanding of the student. The rav knows it from an essential level, way beyond the logical structure. And this is what really elevates the student...

The rav wants to give a makif (fundamental source) and he does this by means of the pnimi.

Sechel is not merely proof. It is not based on evidence. Bumping into the table, doesn't give it a 'truth' of presence. Truth is a G-dly element. Each argument/presentation of the rav has an element of logic, but it contains a G-dly element.