“First Man; First Thought” p: 166

AyinBase with R' Paltiel Thursday 1 Tammuz 5772 

Page 166 – end of middle of top paragraph of the page (line starts, 'adam...') For text, see link top right of the blog. Or for text right click here.

We are looking at the term Adam Kadmon / Primal Man. Man is a creation so how can he be primal – how can he be pre-existing creation?

Non-existence preceded him. Novelty means something was innovated – there was a background into which this topic or creation was placed. And man seems to be in that category. So he seems like he's not primal.

Klalus ha olamot – world in contrast to G-dliness is a sequence of interactive aspects and progressions. For example 'thought, speech and action' could not function if exposed to the full glory of the mind. To see physicallity when you have the soul view? You don't see it... you can see it only if you can relate to it. There's nothing there to see. So 'thought, speech and action' do not exist in isolation.

The 'thought, speech and action' that we know are already on a 'practical' level. The emotional and intellectual sense precede 'thought, speech and action' - this is also world, but on a different level.

A table is part of human furnishings. Only humans use tables. The table indicates the royal quality. He puts things down. He owns things.

Though the table is rooted in the essence of what a human being is, however that high concept would not create a table on 4 legs. At the higher level the table is rooted in the human concept and so it cannot be explained or identified. To make it, the table has to be isolated. It has to be taken out of its higher setting.

This is called a tzimtzum / contraction.

When the human being is a physical creation, the truth of his royalty is expressed. When he is above and part of G-dliness it is not so apparent.

Inside text at 21^st min of video: primal man is called the pristine thought. The higher worlds correspond to our experience of 'thought, speech and action'. Thought is the first moment where the essential truth acquires a form. Before that it is all part of the soul.

The original thought is not based on the previous thought. It relates to the source of all thought. The reason a human being thinks like a human being is because he is a human being. This is what is called the pristine human thought.