“Wisdom/chochmah knows not by projection, but by meeting. This involves full dedication and not putting attention on one’s own presence.“
Everything is a Godly creation. It does not have a real basis in world. Godliness comes to us from His initiative.
Chochmah/wisdom recognizes this reality.
And there is an “intellectual”/sichli element of wisdom that relates to the level of binah/understanding that is below it.
Mind/sechel is a true soul quality.
Notes from Michoel P:
4 Teves Shiur
Gdliness represents Gdly perspective
Chochmah recognizes this reality.
Re'iah. Sees this divine reality.
Chochmah Does not need to be separated, there is nothing comparable to it.
If we call it Kodesh, then there is an element which must be separated/distinguished from Binah. This is Sichli.
Ultimately although it can be grasped and understood, it is also a Divine gift.
Binah is seichel. 2x2=4 is not binah. There's no concept to it.
Chochmah we are saying has a similarity to Binah.
Seichel is how you know intelligent life within context.
Sichli is a neshama quality. Primarily it is is in the Binah realm where an inyon of Chochmah is defined to the point where it is graspable.
Ex: Man was created in a totally different way than all rest of creation. As a single entity, with Gds hand, individual attention, given spirit of life and then the right to be in the world.
All animals and rest of world are here by default.
How is this expressed?
When a human eats, must eat in a way that the food is served to him. Demonstrates that he is a King. The world is serving him. This is yhe divine spirit imbued in him, this is his status. Does not stoop down to world.
Eating at a table is a Binah derivative of this principle. Comfortable chair. Etc
Sichli - the elaboration of the reality.
Derivative of the Chochmah.
BTsalmenu kadmosenu. Man is put into the world to represent Gd.
^Chochmah.
Sichli : is How is that ^ identified.
This principle cannot be r fully explained.
Nevertheless we can recognize it and know of it. This is Hanocho. As it is being identified at the Sichli level. (and not hasogo.)
Similarity between Hanocho and Hasogo.
They both have a subject.
I know what I know. (Hanocho)
Hanocho here replaces the phenomenon of Hasogo.
This is the Hitsonius aspect of Chochmah. How it manifests.
Which surfaces via a Tzimtzum. Limit the effect of its essential truth. Turn away from that and try to see what is the message.
Chochmah doesn't need a message, doesn't need to explain itself.
Here, it is "stooping down" and allowing itself to be understood and grasped.
Hitsonius of Chochmah.
While Chochmah is in full force, there is no ability for hasogo.
Ex: Human must eat just like an animal, even though it is different.
Human wears clothes, an animal doesn't. Being unclothed - terrible violation of human status.
Can you and must you explain why a human being needs clothes?
The whole phenomenon of Tznius is a divine spirit in the human being, period.
Without clothes, he's just out of place.
Halacha: If one pulls off a garment off someone else, he must pay a fine for busha, where the embaressment is translated to actual monetary representation.
Ex: How does he eat?
This is the hitsonius of Chochmah.
Putting mouth to plate, or lifting plate to mouth?
Doesn't need to be explained. Once shown, We get it.
Comes via Tzimtzum.
The level in Chichmah which comes down to Hasogo must be separated, differentiated (Havdala) that it is not like the hasogo of binah. The comprehension there is in a category onto itself. Appropriate to ooint at that Chichmah here is b'Havdala.
Comprehension means mixing this thing with something else.
Unification with the thing that is being comprehended.
