AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel
Monday
12 Iyar, 5774
Page
59
At
end of second line of page –
(line
begins: "hanefesh ha bahamit”) For text, click: Here.
The
labor of the Godly soul is by effort fighting an opposition –
working to affect a bitul/humility in the animal soul.
The
Godly soul guides the animal soul in changing its desires and
discarding his coarseness. For the animal soul to want Godliness is
an anomaly.
By
this struggle is completed the inner intent. That there be a
dwelling place for Him in the lower worlds – ie full cognizance of
His presence.
The
soul's descent is for 2 things. To perfect the animal soul and to
draw Godliness down here below – so that there will be a dwelling
place for Him here below.
The
animal soul comes to the point of saying, 'I should want essence...!'
This is the phenomenon of sechel/mind. It is rooted in that which
is higher than it. It realizes that the creation comes from
something way higher than world. And it says, 'okay you can relate
to what you experience, but it is not reality.' The animal lives at
the level of experience and knows nothing of truth.
Sechel
discounts its experience. And strives for truth.
Sechel
goes for the truth 'because it is true, not because it is my
experience'.
The
animal soul can begin to relate to Godliness per se and not to its
experience. This is due to the birur/purification.
There
used to be the service of 'fasting'. How was it productive? The
principle is that normally you depend on the food and so you relate
to it, and say, 'I ate, so now I can go into my day...' Fasting is
eliminating this interconnection. Dissociating from the physicality
necessities. And then you can look at the Godly truth...
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