“The Life Element, Itself” p: 31 - 32

AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel Sunday 28 Menachem Av 5773 

Page 31 (lamed aleph). last line of the page, last 2 words – (line begins: 'chochmato...') For text, click: Here.

Delight contains all, but does not depend on its content. The content is insignificant although it is present. 

Photo: Joel, Sweden

Focus on this principle: a human being needs a home. His presence in the world is lacking without it. This is not to say that when he gets the home he first becomes human. So he is a human being prior to having the home. So why do we say he is not a human being without a home.

The principle of a human being is infinitely superior to having a home. A home is a definitive place that you have (whether you rent or own). You are not transitory. A human being lives not on a functional level. He lives on a real level.

The animal exists on the functional level. The human being lives on the essential level.

So thus, the sense of being a human being is that he is for real and not transitory. He is where he belongs, and belongs where he is. It is his by right, not by fending off attackers. And who gives him this right? The animals 'also' have their turf. But they don't have the right – they fight for it daily. The human being acquired the 'right' to what he has. He has a fundamental right to be.

Nothing, but God has a fundamental right to be. He is the source of all being. He provides presence. And all that represents Him, has a right to be. The human being has the right due to Him. God breathed into man a soul...

By design the human being is a Godly representation.

He is life in the body. This is completely different to a 'living body'.

A human being, is by definition, reality itself.

This means he is able to bring this life into the world. He acts in the world. He acts, 'almost like the animal' – he eats and sleeps, but each activity has the stamp of dignity.

And this human being is real before he expresses himself in the world. Chochmah/wisdom is the means for the nefesh to express itself on a practical level.

It reveals and draws from the nefesh all kinds of functional aspects. In what way are these functional aspects in the soul?! The human being is 'for real' and has a Godly element. He is complete.

Existence comes from a First Being. This is the basis for reality. This is before your first thought. The Rambam explains that this is the foundation of all thought. So where do we get that recognition if it is before thought and experience? The answer is that we have a piece of God within us. We are privy to knowing there is a First Being. 

Existence comes from His existence, not non existence. You are privy to this knowledge. And this is the basis of your awareness of yourself. You didn't become aware of yourself when you bumped your hand on the table. Your awareness not based on your knowledge of yourself, but on your knowledge of Him. You are not visiting. He invited you here. You are here due to His Graces. You represent Him. This is given to you by your Creator. He says, 'You are here by My invitation'. No-one can take that away. That is the primary soul of the human being.

Then this soul comes into a body. And the body is precarious. It cannot relate to that fundamental truth.

As a soul in a body, I can transform the world. I can build a house. A dream house, full of luxury, grace and beauty. I can do it because my true presence here, represents unlimited reality. And all I do is a trivial representation of that infinity resource... My capabilities are unlimited. I can adjust to everything. I can learn every language. I am independent of all that. I am not a 'living body'. I am a soul. I am life in a body. I am truth in a body.

So now you have a feel for the essence and the details. The essence has everything, but not dependent on it. I can learn anything. The essence has nothing and by virtue of having nothing it has everything. The oneg/delight we are describing is this truth.

The miracle is that chochmah can recognize this truth and at the same time identify what can be drawn from it – going down into the practical world...

The soul, does not, not have anything. But to say it has everything is not accurate. It is not an accumulation of components.

The chochmah translates the delight into the world of time and space.

Going back inside the text: the chochmah represents the oneg. But in the chochmah, it comes enclothed in some topic or thing, in which he delights... and in everything there is an element of truth, which is the delight...