“One World” p: 29

AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel Sunday 7 Menachem Av 5773 

Page 29 (chuf tet). Lower third of the page – (line begins: 'oneg eloki...') For text, click: Here.

We are developing an understanding of chochmah/wisdom for the purpose of understanding how Torah is the intermediary between infinity and the worlds.

An intermediary is that element that can relate to an absolute truth, which is beyond devision and definition and then bring that into the level that operates with specific definitions etc...

When we see there are different places on the world (even though it is one unity) it has an element of the overall delight/oneg. Each place has an element of the general truth.

And so too there is a delight/oneg in all the elements of the physical world. Even in inanimate objects...

Where is the vitality and delight/oneg of the stone?! Silver and gold and precious stones you could say are exceptions, but we are going to use them as representative of the inanimate level...

The human intellect knows that existence has a source. And we are going to look for the delight in everything based on what the mind can relate to, not the hand (which does not feel the difference between silver, gold and steel).

So we say there is a First Being and he saw to it that there would be silver and gold. Everything has a certain element of the first reality. The silver and gold represent a substance with a message, vs the simple pebble representing simple presence. This is kium/existence and reason from an intellectual perspective.

The vitality of these materials touches my vitality. I pay attention to them. There is delight in everything – even the inanimate...  

Do not understand this as just a projection of the human mind, no, this is the truth of the matter. The mind's perception is accurate. This is the way the silver and gold 'views itself'. And we identify this with our sechel/mind.

It touches my vitality... we speak of the way sight allows us to know the reality of something, without having to touch it.

How do we know something is real and actual, beyond my personal perception? When we sense by touch it is like, 'I know it is there because it had an effect on me'.

And this is how the whole world identifies existence. For the human being reality is real and not due to experience. He has this because in his soul he knows the truth. He knows there is reality before anything.

The delight in everything is 'I want to be what He made me!' The silver is not jealous of gold. Through being what He made me I connect directly to the Creator!

Delight/oneg is hard to understand and it is the basis of all reality.

You don't want to be someone else, because there is truth in who you are.

Delight/tynug does not ask for an explanation. It is a reality in itself. The fact that He made the world is proven by the fact that there is delight/tynug in the world.

There is tynug in produce and fruit. And each one is proud of its own quality... it represents a certain absolute reality...

Each thing is there to be itself. Their overall source is the refuse/leftovers from the Godly delight flowing as a river to irrigate the garden...