AyinBase with
R' Paltiel Wednesday 6 MenachemAv 5772
Page
171 – at middle of the page
(line
starts, 'al yeday ztimzum...') For text, see picture below or see
link top right of the blog (needs update).
The
initial light presented by atzmus/essence to represent it, cannot be
comprehended at all. Comprehension of G-dliness is only relevant in
the area of the functional expression level.
And
the comprehension varies. Our usual level of knowledge is based on
comparison. Like, 'what is the difference between a table and a
bench?' This sounds simplistic, but it is the basis of all the
knowledge that is of the world. A presence is known by its effect.
Surely there is a deeper level, but that is a G-dly element.
There
is also a higher level of knowing G-dliness directly, not by
contrast. But our starting point is a worldly outlook. In the
human form, the difference between the brain and the heel is their
sensitivity, though they are both physical.
A
mehus is hard to define in our world. In music there are notes.
Usually they too are known in contrast to each other. But then there
are people with 'perfect pitch' that can directly identify a note,
not in contrast to others. This is like mehus – the thing itself –
not in contrast to other things.
All
the differences experienced in the world, relate to memale kol almin
– His G-dliness being dressed into a vessel and an effect or
functional element. The souls in the Garden of Eden sense Him
directly. We too have a soul, but it is operating through the body
and thus we don't fly out of the body, but work within this context.
This
is like faith/emunah, 'I know it because it is true, rather than
based on proofs and logic'. Faith is like the mehus of all
knowledge. It precedes wisdom/chochmah, 'I know it because of the
truth of my soul' and this takes a high level of purity. It is not
real knowledge in the common sense of the word, 'it is who I am'.
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