“Possession” p: 69

AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel 22 Tammuz, 5774 

Page 69

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You should know that you have a sense (hargsha) of the truth. This is not understood and cannot be understood. It is due to the fact that you have been given a soul. Chochmah is the Godly truth of a worldly phenomenon.

In the world we have light. It is not a physical phenomenon. It has a purity. We experience sight without involvement. This is not worldly and it indicates it is a Godly creation. God gives the world a presence.

We sense in chochmah/wisdom for which there is no tangible element.

We sense for example that there is truth to the ownership of property. Where is this validated in the physical world? It is an inner Godly truth.

We have been discussing choice/bechirah.

We say He choses not due to His attachment. He is not compelled. It is a choosing by choice. That's why before blowing the shofar on Rosh Hashanah we say, 'he will choose for us our inheritance.

This is because at that time of year all of existence reverts to its source... There is no procedural element... and He makes the new choice.

Just as a king is remote from his nation. And he relates to his nation by command. He chooses to relate.

We are dealing with the Godly presence and non presence. He chooses to be present.

We are learning this since the Rebbe is teaching us. With our pea brains alone we would not reach into these matters.

Job was tested. He was brought to the lowest ebb. The Gemara has him say, 'perhaps a strong wind came and rearranged the letters of my name so you mistook me for an enemy' and God responded, 'the snowflakes don't collide and I keep track of each of them, so you think your name is confusing to Me?!'

If we think of God as a presence, then we may ask, 'how can He be everywhere and attend to each snowflake?'

We cannot understand this, but He is above metziut/presence, and He can certainly attend to each snowflake and grain of sand. This is how we relate to God. There are no worldly parameters in understanding Him. He's omnipresent, since He is not limited by presence.

And the soul had no negativity. It says what it is. This is like the sound of the shofar. The soul is not precarious. It is based on a fundamental reality.

And here's a poem written and read by Yitzchok Bloom....