“You Don't Know What I'm Thinking”

Thursday, February 13, 2014

“You Don't Know What I'm Thinking”

p:54 AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel ThursdayNight 13 Adar I,

5774

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At about 10^th line from top of page – (line begins: "Hashem...”) For text, click: Here.

A blessing is a way to bring something down from the concealed world into the revealed world...

Thoughts are inner and not revealed... yet machshavah/thought is called a world. It is hard to know why they are a world...

In words we here a sound and you know there's a content to the sounds. But with thought you are initially unaware of the 'words' of your thoughts...

Pure sechel/mind, is what is dressed in thought.

Mind comes down to be known at the level of thought. And to do this it must be dressed in words... to make it known... without the letters and worlds, we could not know it...

These letters must not interfere with the concept. They are very fine. They do not announce themselves as a presence, so as not to cover over the content... this is why they cannot be sensed from the outside. They are bringing the source...

In the modern world the garment was substituted for the inner content.

Sechel/mind is not just to identify items, but to see the significance of thing. It is due to the truth of the nefesh/soul. It can only relate to that which should exist.

The soul of man is a Godly truth. It does not accept things that it 'happens upon', it sees there 'is a reason why something is here'...

A human being is not a 'living body'. If that was the case he would know only what the body tells him. Rather he is life in a body. Life is real. It is truth. And that is a completely different perspective.

So sechel, even while dressed in letters, remains a soul truth... a thought cannot be seen outside, a soul cannot be outside.

Real knowledge is not based on demonstration.

In thought you sense the truth of the soul, but it is a bright light of the soul that cannot be shared with another... Why can it not be shared? Soul is soul and cannot be given away...

The light of the soul in at reduced level is called a faculty. Light is not a presence of its own. It is always connected to the source.

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The power of the name...

In everything there is how this thing pertains to itself and how it represents itself. This representation is really a secondary element in this presence – that it can be viewed from outside and that it represents itself. There is a deep element - you would think that we can represent ourselves any way we want – this is politics, but this is a perversion. Really there is an essential element in a person to represent himself. This is the power of a name – it is an external thing, but at the same time it touches his essence. A person has a body and soul – the purpose of the soul in the body is not for itself, but to express itself outside...! ~ Shiur Sunday 8.22.2010

Light Power

All that came into being...

...all the created worlds and all the ethereal entities that live in them, even the worlds that are mere emanations without tangible substance, even the worlds of thought and beyond to the realms of infinite light that preceded Creation...

--all this came to be only as a result of the thought of you, the earthly being, struggling in a world that only a infinitesimal glimmer of G-dliness has reached in its purity, bringing light where light could not be.

And so it follows, that with one simple act of beauty, all those worlds and realms of light find their purpose fulfilled, and so shine yet brighter--and reciprocate with a burst of illumination into our lowly world.

That is why the entire creation can be transformed with one simple, sincere deed.

Never underestimate the power of light.

From the wisdom of the Rebbe. Words by Tzvi Freeman

Tools of the trade (Glossary)

(… to be continued and developed…)

· Bechinat – aspect

· Keili – vessel/container

· Ohr – light (pl: Ohrot or Orot)

· Hitlabshut – enclothement

· Kodesh – holy (lit: removed)

· Shaichus - connection

· Madrega – level

· Etzem – essence

· Muvdal – removed/separated

· Koach – power (as in koach reiya – the power of sight. Pl: kochot)

· Dibur – speech

· Machshavah – thought

· Myseh – action

· Malchus – kingship

· Kesser – crown, encompassing level

· Etzem – essence

· Mekabel – recipient

· Mashpia – giver / mentor

· Misromem – exalted

· Oh ein sof – infinite light

· Melech – king

· Meturgeman – translator / intermediary

· Tammuz – a Hebrew month

· Rav – teacher

· Sechel – mind

In the world - Beyond the world - Exodus - Shattering and Refinement

Hayom Yom (25 Tevet):

"From my father's discourses we see that Exodus from Egypt means leaving limitations and bounds, and Chassidus is to enable man to leave the restrictions of the material world.

There is a difference: The Egyptian Exodus means shattering and then departure. We went away from Egypt.

The Chassidic Exodus means purification and correction, stepping out of worldly limitations and bounds while remaining in the the world.

This means, that while functioning within the world we must transcend its limitations. We are to remove the limitations and bounds, and perceive the truth - that the world per se is truly good, since, after all, the natural world is what G-d intended.

This is attained through the Avoda (work) of Chassidus."

Notes: When society and environment ("world" in chassidic usage) conflict with Torah, there may be a reaction of withdrawal from "world" and its affairs. Extreme monastic withdrawal is rejected by Torah.
Chassidus advocates being "within world," involvement in the normal routines of family and occupation for example, but refusing subservience to the values and principles of "world."

The Jew's values are to be Torah's while he functions in the marketplace or laboratory. He utilizes the opportunities and challenges of "world" to subordinate and use worldly affairs for Torah ideals, values and goals.

He will do this intellectually when confronting concepts that appear not to be consonant with Torah, and also by observing Mitzvot in inhospitable circumstances.

While functioning in this environment he is apart from it, refusing to be dominated or intimidated by it.

Stand, Walk and Jump - Daily Chassidus

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