AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel Tuesday 26
Sivan 5773
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24 (chuf dalet). 5 lines from end of the page –
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begins: 'lo nikarti...') For text, click: Here.
We are talking about
Torah. It comes from chochmah/wisdom. Chochmah is the essence and
retains the essential aspect.
It is a wisdome that
is inherent in the essence itself.
He was not preceded
by 'not being'. In that level is chochmah. It is a level called,
'knowing Himself' (yediat atzmi). And this is not a process of
discovery. It is an inherent reality.
A rock is a metaphor
for essence. It stands for itself and is uninvolved in anything
external. Chassidus explains that physicality is really
representative of this essential faculty - 'it is there because it is
there' – it represents the real Essence. But the rock does not
know that it exists. It is only a metaphor. But the principle of
Essence is full awareness – awareness that is not an add-on.
And how can there be
'knowing' in an essential state? Truth is already a manifestation
that we relate to. Then there is the simple reality. And this
knowing, is 'knowing essence as it is unto itself'. This is in
contrast to the rock – there is full cognizance of what it is –
of itself.
In today's world it
is concluded that anything that exists or any experience can be
explained on a procedural/physical level. This is a view that there
is no Creator and that the world made itself... This is the perfect
state of death. 'Even while I am alive, I am not living'. We see
it differently. We say, by contrast, 'there is a First Being, there
is a first reality that is inherent in the soul'. This knowledge
provides for chochmah/wisdom. Knowing things at the level of wisdom.
It sets the criterion for existence. That He makes it and there is
sense to its existence.
From chochmah come
revelations ad infinitum. There is no limit to what it contains.
You have a level of chochmah that is above any specific formating or
discipline. That's why there is the statement of 'I can do it'.
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