AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel
Tuesday 30 Menachem Av
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| Picture: Sara Yallouze |
There is a principle
that is hard to comprehend. How do you have delight in the essence
of the thing? The basis for this kind of question is because we
understand ourselves as 'self-made'. We think we understand because
we made ourselves understand. This is a view devoid of nefesh/soul.
This view removes the difference between human beings and animals.
Essence: there is no
such principle in a worldly context. It is present in the world,
because the world is a Godly creation. Essence is a 'super-worldly'
reality.
Cochmah/wisdom is in
the world and it can sense essence, which is super-worldly.
How does it do this?
First it sees, the world did not make itself. Anything here in the
world was created and brought into it from a Source. And then
chochmah/wisdom says, 'I want to relate to that – to that
which is beyond world – I want to relate to it, even if my presence
will be effaced – I just want to relate to this truth'.
All that we see
emanates from the total reality. This is what provides it with
being. With the faculty of sight you open your eyes and see
everything. You see the entire reality at a glance.
And then there is the
sense, that what I see is just the actual item as opposed to the
delight, which is where the thing is sourced.
So if you cannot put
it in your pocket and walk away with it, what is the point of
learning it? Indeed living like an animal is simpler. And many have
chosen that. But many don't want to accept that. You are instructed
to live according to sechel/mind, and to know there is a Creator that
is not knowable. And He has not picture/form.
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