“Look
and Look Away” p: 32-33 AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R'
Looking at
chochmah/wisdom. We said it is just interested in the pure truth...
we touched on how it is different from the essence of delight.
Chochmah has delight
hidden within it.
What is the function
of chochmah? It is outside the essence. Oneg/delight and
ratzon/will are within the essence.
It is a great
kindness and miracle that we are connected to chochmah. We have a
'similar' experience on the physical level and that triggers our
knowledge of the chochmah... sight is the physical 'trigger' for us
to be in touch with chochmah/wisdom.
Sight makes you aware
of reality by observation and then you relate back to the essence
that precedes observation. It relates you to a reality that you
cannot deny. So the external observation brings us to an internal
reality. That is a miracle.
The miracle is that
chochmah is an actual external faculty, yet it connects you to the
essence. So the world is not just a coordination of multiple points
– chochmah/wisdom brings sense of unity/delight.
There is an element
called, 'knowing oneself'. A person is himself. What is knowing
himself? If you are yourself, what is knowing oneself? There
is delight/oneg in every part of the human being. It is sourced in
the chochmah/wisdom. And each part is alive, but without awareness.
But when it comes through chochmah/widsom there is awareness – so
both vitality and awareness are provided.
Tshuvah/return
bypasses the whole structure and goes straight to the vitality
itself. There is an inherent connection in the soul with its
Creator. This precedes awareness. Tshuvah/return is a soul
awakening and going to the Source.
On Yom Kippur it is
forbidden to eat and drink. Eating and drinking brings life to the
body – life at the body level. This is a day to relate to life not
through the body, but directly.
Return/tshuvah is an
expression of 'essence to essence' and that does not express itself.
'What happened here?' 'Nothing!'
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