AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel Tuesday 27
Tishrei 5774
Page
35 (לה)
At
about 7 lines from end of the page –
(line
begins: 've-ahtem...') For text, click: Here.
We are looking at the
principle that there can be an influence (hamshacha) that is infinite
yet measured.
To be a vessel, a
service of silence is required. This nullification/silence makes him
a receptacle for 'atik' – that which is beyond definition. What
allows a person to 'put himself totally aside'?
The world is
proposing that knowledge is only that which affects you forcefully.
We say the opposite. We say a human being has soul faculties. He
knows things that are beyond experience. He knows due to the life of
his soul. He knows because he is alive.
There is knowledge
beyond knowledge. 'You don't know what you know'. You know it by
virtue of its truth, not by virtue of your ability to know.
Putting oneself
totally aside, means to fully give up knowing as a separate entity.
The basis of being
able to do this is an awareness of reality beyond knowledge. 'There
is truth beyond my ability to know and I don't want to know it, I
want to relate to it...!'
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