“This is Mine” p: 71

AyinBase with R' Paltiel ThursdayNight 27 Nissan 5772 

Page 71 – about a third from the top of the page (line starts, 'kulhi....') For text, see link top right of the blog. Or for text right click here.

We have been saying that here below the element that can make distinctions between the inner and outer factors is Torah, mitzvoth and the souls of Israel. The reason they can do this is because they were already chosen within essence itself.

Deeper than that we say: that specific element and level, that makes the choice above and chooses pnimius/interior is the infinity Himself.  

In our metaphor of the guest at the meal, we see that all significance rests in the host. We sense this in our human level. It is a blessing that a human being is granted such an element of reality... the external level is the food – you can take it for yourself. Essence cannot be separated from its source. It exists only by its actual presence.

For many years we have discussed the way sight is an essential element in a person. It gives a person a sense of reality. There is a big difference between one who is blind from birth and one who had it and then lost it. The one who is blind from birth does not have the reality of the world, but the once sighted man carries the reality with him. This is to show that even pnimiut/interior level can be had without the connection to the essence. 

Essence cannot be transferred at all. There's no, 'this is me and then there's my presence' – no they are one and the same thing. Who gives essence quality to pnimiut? It is Essence Himself.

So here below the souls of Israel can bring out this quality below it shows that they have the element of essence down below, that is higher than essential tynug/pleasure.

And if essence is not transferable how do the souls of Israel have it?!

Being that they are already identified within the essence, and essence bestowed on them the declaration, 'this is mine!'

This is His Choice. This is not comparative. This is Choice in the sense of commitment. And thus there is in them the ultimate essential intent, indicating His connection to His will and pleasure.

On Purim night the boys said that if the world was destroyed and no one suffered, then nothing happened. This is profound statement. And profound in that it makes you search. This is like Hertzl saying conversion would be an answer to the Jewish question. The answer to this billion dollar question is that all of us relate not to the relative, daily routine of the world... the world relates to something beyond... to an essential truth... to the Creator of the world, not the world itself...  

Souls represent that reality. Torah represents that reality. It is G-d's.

The souls of Israel and Torah is the presence of pure essence in the world.