“Life Itself” p:10

Monday, February 4, 2013

“Life Itself” p:10

AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel Monday 24 Shvat 5773

Page 10

About lower third of the page – (line starts, 'bemidot...') For text, click here.

Kesser/crown is en-clothed in chochmah/wisdom... but there are distinct categories of en-clothement...

Chochmah/wisdome comes from ein/nothing... Chochmah/wisdom draws from the element of ein/nothing in the crown, not from the presence of the crown.

Yesterday we looked at how sechel can influence middot/emotions. We saw that the emotions can tolerate the input from sechel/mind. But when we talk of the influence from kesser/crown into chochmah/wisdom, it is a different process. Kesser/crown is not worldly and does not have a worldly structure... kesser does not 'come into being' – kesser is from oneg and ratzon (will and pleasure).

This is like life itself. The kesser/crown is 'life/living'. Contrast this with emotions – they come and go. Sechel/mind likewise deals with different topics...

'Life' does not tolerate interuption. Life also comes from the nefesh/soul, so why can't it, like emotions 'start and stop'? The reason is that emotions and sechel have means by which it is revealed... Life of the soul, even though in the body is still a 'entirely a soul element'. The soul cannot be drawn down and undestood by the body. So if for a moment the body rejects the soul, it flies away... the body has to be null/butul to receive the soul. It does not know what it receives.

The fact that there are no definitions/boundaries to life, will and pleasure, means that they cannot be grasped... and chochmah/mind cannot grasp them... you cannot know how your life came into your body...

We don't accept life via any faculty or defined means, it just engulfs us.

So chochmah is coming from kesser/crown... and that does not detract from it being 'pure knowledge of objective truth'.

Knowing that 'there is a First Being' is not a prejudice... knowing there is a 'First Being' gives you the faculty of wisdom/chochmah. This is like saying sight gives you perception of color. Without sight colors still exist!

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The power of the name...

In everything there is how this thing pertains to itself and how it represents itself. This representation is really a secondary element in this presence – that it can be viewed from outside and that it represents itself. There is a deep element - you would think that we can represent ourselves any way we want – this is politics, but this is a perversion. Really there is an essential element in a person to represent himself. This is the power of a name – it is an external thing, but at the same time it touches his essence. A person has a body and soul – the purpose of the soul in the body is not for itself, but to express itself outside...! ~ Shiur Sunday 8.22.2010

Light Power

All that came into being...

...all the created worlds and all the ethereal entities that live in them, even the worlds that are mere emanations without tangible substance, even the worlds of thought and beyond to the realms of infinite light that preceded Creation...

--all this came to be only as a result of the thought of you, the earthly being, struggling in a world that only a infinitesimal glimmer of G-dliness has reached in its purity, bringing light where light could not be.

And so it follows, that with one simple act of beauty, all those worlds and realms of light find their purpose fulfilled, and so shine yet brighter--and reciprocate with a burst of illumination into our lowly world.

That is why the entire creation can be transformed with one simple, sincere deed.

Never underestimate the power of light.

From the wisdom of the Rebbe. Words by Tzvi Freeman

Tools of the trade (Glossary)

(… to be continued and developed…)

· Bechinat – aspect

· Keili – vessel/container

· Ohr – light (pl: Ohrot or Orot)

· Hitlabshut – enclothement

· Kodesh – holy (lit: removed)

· Shaichus - connection

· Madrega – level

· Etzem – essence

· Muvdal – removed/separated

· Koach – power (as in koach reiya – the power of sight. Pl: kochot)

· Dibur – speech

· Machshavah – thought

· Myseh – action

· Malchus – kingship

· Kesser – crown, encompassing level

· Etzem – essence

· Mekabel – recipient

· Mashpia – giver / mentor

· Misromem – exalted

· Oh ein sof – infinite light

· Melech – king

· Meturgeman – translator / intermediary

· Tammuz – a Hebrew month

· Rav – teacher

· Sechel – mind

In the world - Beyond the world - Exodus - Shattering and Refinement

Hayom Yom (25 Tevet):

"From my father's discourses we see that Exodus from Egypt means leaving limitations and bounds, and Chassidus is to enable man to leave the restrictions of the material world.

There is a difference: The Egyptian Exodus means shattering and then departure. We went away from Egypt.

The Chassidic Exodus means purification and correction, stepping out of worldly limitations and bounds while remaining in the the world.

This means, that while functioning within the world we must transcend its limitations. We are to remove the limitations and bounds, and perceive the truth - that the world per se is truly good, since, after all, the natural world is what G-d intended.

This is attained through the Avoda (work) of Chassidus."

Notes: When society and environment ("world" in chassidic usage) conflict with Torah, there may be a reaction of withdrawal from "world" and its affairs. Extreme monastic withdrawal is rejected by Torah.
Chassidus advocates being "within world," involvement in the normal routines of family and occupation for example, but refusing subservience to the values and principles of "world."

The Jew's values are to be Torah's while he functions in the marketplace or laboratory. He utilizes the opportunities and challenges of "world" to subordinate and use worldly affairs for Torah ideals, values and goals.

He will do this intellectually when confronting concepts that appear not to be consonant with Torah, and also by observing Mitzvot in inhospitable circumstances.

While functioning in this environment he is apart from it, refusing to be dominated or intimidated by it.

Stand, Walk and Jump - Daily Chassidus

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“Life Itself” p:10

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