“None Compares to You” p: 169

AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel Thursday 25 Tishrei 5772 

Page 169 – below half way into the page – (line starts, 'ha-yesh...') For text, see picture below.

We have been looking at the uniqueness of wisdom/chochmah. It cleaves to its source and is nothing without it. The source is 'the real thing' – essence, though the most elusive, is the most real. Atzmus/essence, does not make itself known, nor touch anything. You know it due to its truth. Thus it is the most true. Chochmah sees this.

Chochmah is affected exclusively by emes/truth. Thus it has the element of devekut/cleaving.

This is what we say in davening, 'there is none in proximity to You in this world, and there is none but You in the world to come...' In this world it is not sensed how there is 'none but You'. In this world though it is sensed that, 'there is none that compares to You'.

In this world you can know the truth. But you know it as a separate entity and thus one can say, 'there is none like You', but the 'there is none, but You' cannot be sensed.

The 'world to come' is the Garden of Eden, where there is the revelation of the light of atzilus/essence.