An essential desire

AyinBase with R' Paltiel 11/9/2010 Tuesday 2 Kislev 5771

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Page 34 – last quarter of the page – 7 lines from the end of the page. Line starts, “davar...”

Oneg is an experience. And experience involves the person and the subject of the experience. So even though it is on a pure level it refers to something outside and to the effect of that subject.

Oneg atzmi means the experience of the effect at its source – at its essential level – oneg on an essential level. This is unity with the essence.

Kabalot ol is the closest we can come to the level of oneg atzmi. His presence and my existence is unified.

We grasp it to the extent of recognition and knowing we cannot understand it.

The essential truth of torah, gives Him internal enjoyment (not like our enjoyment, which is in contrast to displeasure), and is superior even to the ratzon atzmi.

This is where oneg and chochmah come together. And this gives the oneg a superior quality.

The Illuminator in torah is what returns one to good, and converts dark into light.
Quick sand can pull a man deeper without him realizing. The only way to get out of it is to be pulled out from outside. This is the shashuim atzmiim – the essential playthings – the absolute truth.

The root of knowledge

AyinBase with R' Paltiel 11/8/2010 Monday 1 Kislev 5771

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Page 34 – last quarter of the page – 9 line from the end of the page. Line starts, “ve shorsho ha-emiti...”

Sechel knows something because it is true, not because “i am experiencing” it.

Tynug provides that recognition.

There is an inherent recognition in the human being the there is a real truth and that existence is not precarious.

The root of sechel is tynug.




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Above the sun

AyinBase with R' Paltiel 11/7/2010 Sunday 30 Cheshvan 5771

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Page 34 – last quarter of the page. Line starts, “detynug...”

In truth tynug and chochmah have a commonality.

Nothing that has been created is an atzmi. The nefesh is one with its creator and therefore essential.

From the nefesh come many kochot/faculties. Some are known to us and some are subconscious.

They come from the nefesh in order to reaveal the nefesh in the world. They enable the soul to express itself in the world. The essence of the nefesh incorporates a whole variety of kochot.

When you have all 613 kochot present in the world then you have a sense of an atzmi. The human being is not bound by “his nature”. There is no other creature in the world that can act in 2 opposite ways.

By drawing from his essence the human being is free from “his natue”. Oneg is from the nefesh and spreads to evey koach.



Bitul allows one to see whatever there is to see, and is not limited to one perspective or another.

Oneg is a perception of reality. It is a sense of infinity. The animal soul is satisfied to, “have something for the moment”, but this is taking onge/delight out of context. Claustrophobia is sense that one is not connected to the overall space/context.

Chochmah has a sense of reality and says, “this is absolutely true – I don't have proof, I have how it is emanating from chochmah.” Knowing, is knowing there is a First Being that is the source of all creation. Nothing exists because of itself – the world says, “there is a creator.”


Kedusha is that which is connected to chochmah – this means connected to the source. Oneg is the experience and chochmah is the perception.

The true source of chochmah is the essential oneg/delight.

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Ever present, everywhere....

AyinBase with R' Paltiel 11/5/2010 Friday 28 Cheshvan 5771

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Page 34 – last quarter of the page. Line starts, “hatynug...”

In truth tynug and chochmah have a commonality.

Tynug atzmi is not dependent on being experienced. It is constant. It is like the nefesh. But it has the quality of being the source for all other faculties. Tynug is nefesh at the functioning level. Oneg is based on a consciousness of the infinity – nefesh is one with the infinity.

Oneg translates the infinity on the level of experience.



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Delight of the mind

AyinBase with R' Paltiel 11/4/2010 ThursdayNight 27 Cheshvan 5771

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Page 34 – lower third of the page. Line starts, “ha-atzmi... ”

Dealing with the two levels of sechel, as we address the question of why the nefesh is called nefesh sichli.

One level of sechel and the other is essential. How are they both called sechel? The are so different from each other.

The functional sechel seems entirely practical.

Sechel is akin to sight. Sight is a supreme faculty – different from the others. With sight we observe objects with which we do not come in contact. This gives a most profound sense of reality. We say, “this is reality, not based on my existence.” Touch and sight correspond to midot and sechel.

With sechel you can see 1 and 1 is two. It is a new reality. Underlying the functional sechel is the sense of an absolute truth, that does not need personal substantiation. This is the gift of sechel – it can relate to this absolute truth. It is interested even in this truth that it cannot really experience.

Hiuli is higher than the koach in action. A faculty exists not just while it is performing a specific action. Secular world view says, “everything is just on a functional level”. We say the koach exists at all levels, even in the nefesh itself. The hand is in a state of movement and life, even while it is at rest.

The functional faculty is rooted in the the essential koach/faculty.

The koach is a derivative of the essence of the nefesh. For this reason it is call nefesh hasichli (even though one may think that it just shows that the sechel is nafshi!)

And all the kochot/faculties are rooted in the nefesh.

At a certain level the faculty of sechel and tynug/delight are one thing...

A candy is sweet and gives pleasure. Why? It relates back to the soul! A computer will never have oneg. Oneg/delight does not relate to a bunch of information – it relates to a perfect unity that cancels any other need. Oneg/delight is directly related to infinity. One relates to “where this comes from” and he knows, “there is more where this comes from...”



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