AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel
Sunday
18 Iyar, 5774
Page
60
At
the last third of the page –
(line
begins: "may-hishtalshalus”) For text, click: Here.
We
are looking at how you bring out the essence and create a dwelling
place for Him...
We
have been explaining how this is due to the transformation of the
animal soul. You come from darkness. You come from an animal state.
And the purification of this state brings essence.
We
have looked at how the absence of good – the negativity can reach
the essence of a person's animal soul to motivate change...
On
the level there could be gradations and relative value. But the
absence can affect the person more deeply.
The
Zohar points out that there is supremacy of wisdom over folly like
that of light over darkness... so what's the point? Obviously
wisdom and folly differ. The point is that there is a correlation.
There is an advantage attained by light from the purification of
darkness...!
For
us darkness is the absence of light. And if just the absence of
light brings darkness, it indicates that the fundamental reality is
darkness. The purification is to take away the preeminence of
darkness!
Avodah/service
giving yourself over. Your whole orientation changes. It is risky.
It involves daring. And falling. You go to where you don't have
sure footing. How do you do that? How do you go to a place of 'lack
of definition'? It is based on a 'no, before a yes'. “That which
I understand is not the basis for truth” and you want to go for
the inherent truth not for the identifyable truth.
You
say, “that which I have now is not worth maintaining. I want the
Godly truth and I have no definions. But that doesn't stop me. I
work from within that which I cannot identify”.
At
the end of the day you sleep not to escape the pressures of the day.
You sleep to get refreshed. This is because even in the darkness is
the Godly truth. There is rejuvenation, which is the real test of
the truth of your principle.
How
do you come to identify with the essence of light? It is through the
darkness. The Tzaddik falls, but he knows he is within Godly
reality. You fall till your orientation according to your defined
reality is nullifed and you reach a new reality...
Just
like in darkness you dont see anything, so too in essence you cannot
define anything. But the essence is the exact opposite of darkness.
This
is the Zohar's statement. Light benefits from the experience of
darkness. The darkness shows us a fundamental reality, which we
would otherwise not have known in the world. And then we can see the
fundamental reality in light...
The
purification of darkness in practical terms. Think of a 'soldier's
sleep'. The sleep is service. He goes to a level he could not have
reached in the normal order of things...
Real
sleep is service – clearing out the consciouse mental process and
starting all over again. You have seen the sunrise many times, but
each has its own novelty.
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