“Why Get Up at 6am?” p: 171

AyinBase with R' Paltiel Night 14 MenachemAv 5772 

Page 171 – 6 lines from the end of the page (line starts, 'lehavin davar...') For text, see link top right of the blog. And picture below.

A student asked, 'What does the Rebbe want me to know?'

The Rabbi answered : “He doesn't want you to know anything. He wants you to be part of something. Like this morning – he wants you to recognize and participate. This is beyond knowing”.

The Rebbe is teaching us. And the student asked at the start of class, 'What does the Rebbe want us to know?' The Rebbe wants us to recognize and be fully involved in the local light (ohr memale) that will expose you to the higher light (ohr sovev), which is where the recognition will occur. This is beyond process. The whole effort of the material is 'to get your gut involved in it'. Not to know it at arm's length.

This is a new category – a new revelation of chassidus. There are phrases here in AyinBase, not found elsewhere. This is why, if any place it is necessary to have the Rebbe sit with you and teach you, here in AyinBase it is imperative. You must recognize that the Rebbe is teaching you.  

The Rebbe is teaching you something that cannot be known. You have to listen with all your heart till you say, “aah if you see it, then I see it too”.

In the essence of the light there is no knowledge or grasp. Really in Essence there is no light – it is just that He chooses that there come forth light. Because it is His will, that He should be in the form of light, thus there is the replication of atzmus. And so this light is in a state of total cleaving to essence.

And that light too is beyond grasp...

It is light that is not light. It is essence in a form of light...

this is the principle that is expressed, 've lo yedayti hataam' / 'and I don't know the reason'. In the gemara a sage on presentation of a halacha/law sometimes says, 'and I don't know the reason'. This is knowledge beyond knowledge. 

This brings us face-to-face with the fact that when you deal with real Torah and soul knowledge is is not derived from experience or experiment. It is from truth, from which you draw a trickle that can be 'known'.

There are levels that you can know. And it is imperative to know what you can know. It is only by knowing them that you can appreciate that which you don't know.

27min, 23^rd seconds into the video - 4^th line from the end of the page. It is not known and He does not make Himself known – this is indicating a level beyond knowledge.

We have a useful metaphor for the concept of essence. And there is truth to this metaphor. We understand instantaneously, that if you have a guest at your table and then you serve him and depart, then the whole purpose of the visit is missing. It is not just that the guest is left alone with his food. The element that is missing has no substitute, but for the presence of the host.

What is so special about the host. G-d made a rich world with huge variety. He did it in 5.5 days. And if you picture this world, before man was placed on it... it would be meaningless. The presence of one human being changed the whole scene. What happened? The Torah answers, 'Adam is a representation of Essence'. G-d made Himself present in the world in the form of a human being...!

41 minutes into the video. What is the similarity between the human being and G-d. The human being has the depth of presence and reality, that it cannot be asked, what is his contribution? His very presence is the contribution. He doesn't have to do anything. Why? Because he has that kind of a soul, that he knows only Him/Hashem. Man is the knowledge that G-d is one! With this knowledge he can eat and sleep etc... without this; 'don't torture me'!

 

First there is absolute unity. I have to see that the Host is also there. Even if he's just there. And I don't interact with him. And i'm just eating the meal, I have to know that he is there. The human being has this essence principle. This is why Israel is distinct from all the other nations of the world. The Jews relate only to the absolute reality and won't go ahead without Him.

Anything that can be know is not full unity/yachid.

Essence is yachid/union not echad/one.

The principle of knowledge is not applicable to this.

knowledge/yediah has 2 levels. 1. an identifiable knowledge and 2. chakim, that are known without knowledge.

We sense how our knowledge is base in the soul. In the soul it is intrinsic and beyond process. For us acquired knowledge is valid. The soul has real knowledge and it is not acquired.

The 2 levels of knowledge mentioned above refer to direct and indirect knowledge. Essence is not at all in the level of knowledge... He is beyond both of these.