'Big' AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel, Tevet 5775
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At
end of top of the page –
(line
begins: 'besha-ah...')
We are starting a new
phase. We are beginning the 'Big' Ain Base (the series of discourses
from Shavuoth of that year). Till now we have been doing the 'Small'
Ain Base (a series of discourses from Rosh Hashanah of that year).
This will be
demanding.
We know we don't get
the whole story in one line. We have developed patience. We will be
using this patience.
Left, right and
center exists in the human being. The right hand is the most
forthcoming (this is the midah/emotion of chesed/kindness).
This is reflective of
the structure of the soul (nefesh). Middot are the complement of the
person. You may have an idea, and then it broadens out into a whole
array of details... this is middot.
You start with a
single point. Then from there comes a whole development into the
realm of space and time.
This is the point of
wisdom/chochmah coming down into the level of middot (emotions) –
sechel/mind gives inspiration to the emotions/middot. And the middot
are the actualization of the original chochmah/wisdom.
A human is real.
Things are not reactive and natural for him – he has intention. So
if he was only chesed/kindness, then his own presence would be
totally lost. Do you have an identity or are you just a conduit for
the flow of the water? So in every human activity there is left
right and center. These correspond to chesed/kindness,
gevurah/severity, and tifferet/beauty.
Tifferet is the
perfect balance between chesed and gevurah.
Torah is from this
central line of tifferet.
This can be readily
seen. It gives all kinds of blessings, and all have some kind of
'precondition'. Nothing comes 'free'. That's klipa. Torah joins
'left and right'.
In all relationships
there have to be both qualities – openness, but not hefker.
Restraint with a meaning.
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