“Mind Opening” p:173

AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel Friday 2 Kislev 5772 

Page 173 at 4rd line from the top of the page – (line starts, 'mi-bechinat...') For text, see picture below.

This non-defined, general arousal does not make a specific statement or call for activity per se, yet it goes into the category of 'spreading the light / hispashtus ha-ohr'. It is a sense of 'I can have an effect'.

But the essence of the light is above this general arousal. Light has an essence, that is beyond effect. It is making essence present. This is not an activity.

Essence wanted light. He wanted to be in an aspect of light. He wants to represent Himself in light. Why not say, 'He made light for the purpose of function? Why say He made it to represent Himself?'

This is because in Essence there is nothing! Where does creation come from? There it is exclusively essence and creation is a non-essence, non-entity... but the light is rooted in essence and represents nothing else. He had the will that He should be a presence. An essential presence.

This essential light is like the essence.

Our avodah is to draw the essence into the hispashtus/spreading.

This would not nullify the world, but would enhance it. If the world is seeking and purified, then there is only enhancement.

There is an essence of light, which is like the essence of the name. In America these is a loss of this human element, there is fast food and ease of reference by nick-names. When one seeks to 'avoid the name' then he seeks to equate himself with the animal... it is a matter of convenience.