AyinBase / Ayin Beis with R' Paltiel,
Tishrei 5776
Page
25 of pamphlet –
(At
middle of the page. Line starts: 'hi-nu...'). Page 19 of the book.
For text see below.
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Similar
to what we said before, keilim/vessels have a superiority to lights.
In terms of quality and message, lights are much superior to vessels.
But the vessels reach into the essence.
In
the level of atik, there is no element of vessels/keilim.
In
the level of ak there are keilim/vessels.
There's
a constant conflict between and inner Torah view and the worldly
view... There's a verse that says, 'rain comes from the heavens to
water the earth and cause it to be productive'. From an external
view, the fact that the rain has an positive effect is un-intentional
on the part of the rain...
So
too regarding light... we speak of it in supreme terms, but from an
external perspective it is mearly energy on the a spectrum...
In
both cases the
most significant aspect is totally discounted...!
The
intent and the spirit is stripped out.
The
reason we are looking at these different models is that if we are
exposed to the worldly secular view with it's models that can be
replicated it is enormously convincing. And to illustrate something
from what we are learning – a higher level that does have vessels
and a lower level that is lacking in keilim/vessels.
The
Torah explanation of the world is totally different from the secular
explanation. The secular view begins with, 'the world is a complex
interaction of many parts, the basic of which is the atom or the
subatomic particle. And none of the particles has any sense of the
result of their combination'.
The
Torah view is that the world is not only a creation, but it is a
Godly creation.
From
this perspective the 'Godly spirit' is the basic building block. And
that
is indestrucable.
The
secularists have the subatomic particle as the ireducible element.
The Torah view sees the Godly presence as the basic element.
It
is the spirit that this the maintenance of everything in the world,
and even more so in the human being. The human being is a microcosm
of the world, and his spirit, his brain is key – this is what
energizes everything else!
We
are saying that there are two stages in everything. All comes from
above – from Him. So in everything there is a Godly presence and
then there is a wordly aspect. The Godly element is the
most
significant. The worldly presence is the structure, which is not at
all interested in the overall accomplishment.
Ak
has keilim because it has the purpose to bring things into the world.
Atik
has the role of bringing God himself into the world and thus it has
no vessels/keilim.
Malchus/Kingship
is the source of all in the world – He gives decrees that represent
Him and not the world.
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