“Progressive Discovery” p: 169

AyinBase with R' Paltiel M0nday 19 Tammuz 5772 

Page 169 – at the middle of the page (line starts, 'kuli...') For text, see link top right of the blog. Or for text right click here.

We are saying that chochmah/wisdom appears on the scene like a found object. It becomes something. Nevertheless the wisdom retains the element of 'nothingness'. We're focusing on the principle of devekus – cleaving. The wisdom comes forward but retains the quality of its source.

With sight we know we are looking at the reality itself. But how is it, 'it itself' if it is being viewed from an external perspective? This is because sight is such a fine and spiritual faculty.

Chochmah is so fine that it is the means by which G-dliness is brought down into the world. Atzmus itself becomes imbued in world – daas elyon.

To explain: what is chochmah? If it is nothing, then your own presence counters its truth. The answer is that the knowledge is a 'non-entity'. Ein becomes yesh and yesh is ein...