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/ Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel Monday 4 Tevet 5773
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We said that source
of life, is in essence, and this is reached by means of tshuvah from
the depths of the heart.
On the revealed
level, sechel/mind guides the heart. But in mind, even in
chochmah/wisdom there is a sense of a presence. A principle of
sechel is that you sense, 'how you got it' – 'learned it'. Even in
chochmah this is true, the experience of, 'not having and having' in
contrast to ratzon which is 'ever present'.
In the heart, there
are emotions guided by mind, but then there are the depths of the
heart, that are the essence of the soul. It has no process. It does
not come to be. It always is. It precedes ratzon.
In our experience we
don't know the significance of ratzon/will. In our thinking 'will'
and 'want' has a cause. We say, 'I want this, because I lack it'.
But the real meaning of ratzon is very different from what we
experience in 'I want'. The english word 'want' also means
'lacking'. But the real meaning of 'ratzon' does not have this
element of 'lacking'.
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