AyinBase with R' Paltiel Sunday 7
Iyar 5772
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159 – top of the page
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starts, 'se-lemaylah....') For text, see link top right of the blog.
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A
garment for the soul/neshamah comes down with it and enables it to
reveal it's richness.
How does the garment/levush enable the soul to unify with the body and reveal its qualities?
The
reason for this ability is that the levush/garment is rooted above the concept of revelation and
faculties. It is sourced in the essential presence itself, not related to
accomplishment or function in any way. Due to its essential reality
and root it is able to bring out all the revelaitons of the soul and
unify it with the body.
To
elaborate on this union of body and soul and to
understand the meaning of this union, it should be understood that the body and soul they are opposites.
They are complete opposites.
They have no cognizance of each other. The soul is
spiritual to the extreme. And the body is fully physical.
The
making of man was done in a unique way. All other creations have
souls and bodies that have greater proximity to each other. The
plants have plant level souls. There is greater commonality.
The
human's body is from the inanimate matter – 'He made man from the
dust of the earth'. But the soul is from the human level and there
is no correlation at all between inanimate and the human
(medaber-speaking ) soul.
Take
the extremes. The medaber/human is the exact opposite of the
inanimate. Animals also move and eat etc, but there is a categorical
difference. All of the animals activities are reactive. The animal
thinks in terms of 'fight or flee'. He knows things by 'touch'. By
personal affect. it investigates by asking, 'what does it mean to me?'
"Will this be my lunch
or will I be his lunch?" asks the animal. It has know sense of
knowing the truth unto itself.
This
is like the difference between sight and touch. (18 min into the
video)
Touch
is like stumbling into something, bumping against objects and sensing, 'something obstructed my
movement. It is all reactive'. Sight is completely different. It
truly senses things as they really exist. 'Not because it affects me'. Only the human being knows
reality at this level.
The
medaber/human cares not for things on the physical level. He cares what
it is about, the meaning. This is dibur/speech. Perception, thought and cognition are a process.
Speech by contrast is rooted in choice and not generated by reaction. A human speaks by intention. "I don't have to
react. I express the reality. Not the personal effect".
Inanimate
objects are so into themselves that they make just make one statement, 'I
am here.'
So
the human being is made from extremes.
Avraham/Abraham asked is
there an owner/manager to this palace? Why is he asking? Can't he
just bask in the sun and enjoy the rivers. No.
The human soul knows
only the true meaningful elements and thus he's searching the world
and asking, '"what's going on here? And if nothing's going on then what
is it?!'
The
scientist's so called, 'intellectual honesty', says "your perception
is just personal preference and only physicality is real!" Really
this is 'animal honesty'. It is the animal that gives primacy to the
physical world. The life in the person says, "that cannot be! There
is reality and truth that is above the physical".
Humans
see His activities, and the wonder of how the world is created by G-d, but they get distracted, and wonder, 'what's for
lunch today'.
Unless we lose focus and perspective, we see in a house and its furnishings, the owner.
And in the trees, sky, sun and movement of the clouds, the Owner - the One who makes and manages the world.
The
human looks at things from their truth perspective and that's where
speech comes out.
When you are in thought, you are using mind, but
thinking occurs while in touch with the life element itself. The thought
relates to the source and the levels of mind are drawing from that
reality.
Speech is different. It is an export. It takes it out beyond the source.
We
don't see Him making the world.
'He said and it came to be!' This is how
the Torah/Bible explains the process. He commands and it appears!
This is the level of dibur/speech. This is a jump. Not process. He
said and it was!
The ultimate of mind/sechel is expressed in
dibur/speech more than in thought.
So
how can man be the extreme of spirit (medaber) and at the same time
physical? How can there be a connection between the soul and the
body. The light and life of the soul comes in a manner of 'flesh
life, and natural life'. The soul is imbued in the body insuch a way
that it can relate to natural life.
This
is a trick of the faculty that connects the two. The life the body
gets from the soul seems natural. Yet we see soul elements. In his
brain (physical) he has true sechel/mind (neshamah elements) and in
his hands true talent (neshamah/soul revelation). There is a true
union between the soul and the body. The soul alone could not think
of making a painting or singing a song – it doesn't know physicality, but in union with the body can create a painting!