“Bring Back All the Colors to My Dreams” p:1/א

AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel Sunday 3 Tevet 5773 Eighth  day of Channukah

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We started the discourse from the beginning again. The Rebbe opens with the situation where Rosh Hashanna falls on Shabbat.

Shofar has to do with tshuvah/return, which is above sin.

What is the principle of depth? We know that we can dig deeper and get to water. Sometimes you have to dig deeper. What is the function of water in the depths of the ground? There is a Source of Life and then there is the manifestation of this.

Water near the surface, serves as a well. It is brought to the surface and used there. But what is the point of water deeper in the earth. The significance is that the earth itself has water. The earth has a spiritual faculty to provide for life – cause plants to grow. It has a vessel and is expressed in the earth itself. It appears to be alive – it has heat and water! 

This is the physical manifestation of the spiritual power that the Creator has imbued it with.

The Baal Shem Tov says that the wonders put into the earth will never be all discovered or exhausted...

So the meaning of depth vs surface; we have chochmah/wisdom that comes as a spark and binah/understanding that comes in a well defined manner. The source of chochmah/wisdom is not mind at all. It is the creation point of mind. Binah draws from this. So depth applies to something that has an essential reality.

The earth corresponds to malchus/royalty and it produces indefinitely.

Depth is going beyond where something exists, going beyond where something is present. Going to where something is true, not present.

Tshuvah/return; all will comes from depth. In essence there is nothing, but He wanted to represent Himself in light. Tshuvah reaches even deeper than the usual depth of mitzvoth. 

It reflects the source of the will – it represents the Master of the will (Baal Haratzon).

There are 2 levels – Source of life; and with You is the source of life. The truth of mitzvoth is the Commander. Think of being a guest at someone's house. The host is present. He doesn't say 'here, eat, I have to go...'

If there was no dinner, something would be lacking.

Each contributes, the host and the dinner.

This is like the tangible and the intangible.

You can look at your hand. You don't see the life it contains. It is invisible. But it is the life that makes the hand a hand! Without the life it would just be a piece of flesh.

There are 2 levels of life in the hand. One: it will not rot; second: the faculty of movement. 

Compare a human hand and that of a robot. What is the difference? The real hand is connected to its source. It is connected to the essence of the soul, the essential reality. On a practical level he does a specific action. The will is a manifestation that he is for real.

That level is the depth beyond the depth. It does not belong to the individual. You cannot explain in worldly terms what is ownership or what is a name. It is there since it is a G-dly presence.