“Light and Shade” p:10

AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel Tuesday 25 Shvat 5773 

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We said that the transition from kesser/crown to wisdom/chochmah is between levels that have no commonality. There is no proximity. That is not to say it is outside of seder hishtalshalus...

Because it was established/husad that way....

In the seder hishtalshalus there is the knowledge that there is something beyond this process... this knowledge is itself something that is part of the process...

The human represents the highest and the lowest. His body is from earth – lower than all other creatures and his soul is from God – kesser – crown. The error is to think we are earth bound. We are not earthlings. We have to be on earth, but act on the basis of light.

And this is the avodah, to function in the dark as if it is light – that is the gift of chochmah/wisdom. And that's why it is not outside of seder hishtalshalus / the process of 'download'.

Nowadays there is psychological therapy. Sometimes if one has fallen to earth, then he needs this. But in general a person can be told the truth and he will live up to it, even though he is still in the dark. And this is what the human being represents.

Think of hair. It attests to the life behind it. It shows physical life... chochmah/wisdom relates to the aspect of kesser/crown that it can perceive – the life element not the inner aspect of crown/kesser...