Part 7 · Chapter 1

Okay, we're on the air here. פרק א', parentheses, the big parentheses, page 218 halfway down, ולפי זה. We're going to talk about נבונים. ולפי זה, so now in this parenthesis, we're going to explain some more details about the way that חכמה and בינה work. And especially, we're going to explain how in their source, חכמה and בינה actually connect with the כתר and that, you know, on the simple on the simple level, חכמה of בינה is lower than בינה of חכמה.

Connecting חכמה and בינה through the כתר 0:17

That it's like on the simple level, it's progression that you go up. You go בינה of בינה, then חכמה of בינה, then כתר of בינה, then בינה of חכמה, חכמה of חכמה, then כתר of חכמה.

But now, we're going to explain that really the ability to connect the two to have בינה in חכמה or חכמה in בינה, even just חכמה of בינה, even just to have that combination on the lowest level, requires in some way that you get all the way up to the כתר that's higher than both of them, that connects both of them, or else you won't be able to make חכמה and בינה join together.

So even just to have a חידוש in בינה really means that you're activating the כתר, which is the source of חכמה. And that's why when you keep doing עיון in בינה and getting חידושים in בינה, that will start to activate also the ability to make חידושים ממש in חכמה, because really that's in a way, the ability to make a חידוש in בינה is higher than the חכמה itself, than making the חידוש itself.

So this is what we just finished explaining before this parenthesis about how when you just do the עיון into the בינה, you'll open up and activate the depth of חכמה and בינה. That's why it's called מעמיק.

So that's the connection to this parenthesis. ולפי זה, based on this, מה שכתוב הבן בחכמה וחכם בבינה, this that it says in ספר יצירה, that you should understand with wisdom and be wise with understanding, meaning that from your חכמה you should come to understand, הבן בחכמה, that within your חכמה when you get a חידוש, a new idea, you should understand other things from that חכמה.

וחכם בבינה, and within בינה you should have חכמה, you should make חידושים within your understanding. You should use your understanding to make like a חידוש.

שמבואר בכתבים, it's explained in the מאמרים of the אלטר רבי that are called כתבים, דהיינו ע"ב דס"ג, חכם בבינה, that this is ע"ב דס"ג, שם ע"ב and ס"ג means the name of 72 and the name of 63.

These are different names of God. They're different ways of spelling the name י-ק-ו-ק, the name הוי'ה. When you spell out each of those letters, that's called like a מילוי. So in other words, when you spell the letter י', instead of just writing a י', you write יו"ד, that's called the מילוי of the letter י'.

And so later we're going to explain all four of these names and what they represent. So in short, the the one spelling which corresponds to חכמה has has a גימטריא, the numerical value of 72, and there's another name which with a different spelling which has a numerical value of 63.

The 72 and 63 Names of God 3:12

And so later we'll explain all what all these they are, and then the one of 63 corresponds to בינה. So ע"ב דס"ג means חכמה within בינה, and that's חכם בבינה, be wise with understanding.

So like we said, we'll explain the names later, but just in in short, the name ע"ב is מילוי יודין, means that it's all the all the everything is spelled with a י'. So that's

יו"ד ה"י וי"ו ה"י. And then the name of ס"ג is called מילוי יודין with an א', so there's one א' replacing a י', so it's nine less. It's

יו"ד ה"י וא"ו ה"י, and that's equals 63. And we'll explain them later and why they correspond to חכמה and בינה. שהוא רק להבין דבר חידוש אחר מתוך המושג דבינה. So the idea of חכם בבינה is חכמה within בינה, and that means to make a חידוש just within this understanding of בינה. So whatever you're learning, you'll just make a חידוש within that. So you're learning a piece of גמרא, you're learning the רש"י, and you have a question, and you'll make a חידוש within that רש"י how to explain the רש"י, let's say.

שזה אינו אלא על ידי בחינת העיון הנ"ל. The only way that you'll understand an idea clearly and be able to make a חידוש, a new way to explain it or a new way to understand it, is if you study it very very well, which is the idea of עיון, that you really analyze it.

שהוא המברר כל חלק על בוריו, which בינה, this עיון is what clarifies all of the parts, all the details of of the idea. ונקרא בינה שבבינה, this is what's called בינה שבבינה. The analysis is בינה שבבינה, and then through the analysis of בינה שבבינה, you'll come to חכמה שבבינה, which is the ability to make a חידוש within that idea.

From בינה שבבינה to חכמה שבבינה 5:18

ואחר כך יוכל להוליד ולהוציא ולהמציא הבנה והשגה חדשה, and then afterwards you'll be able to bear out a new thing and find a new understanding, אבל רק בהשגה זו עצמה, but only within this idea that you're learning, not a completely new idea that has nothing to do with it, just like a new way of explaining this, or like an innovation.

שנקרא חכמה שבבינה, that's called חכמה of בינה. It's just a חידוש within the בינה. חכמה means a חידוש and בינה is within the understanding.

אבל כתר דבינה הוא עומק המושג כנ"ל, המגיע שרשו בעומק החכמה כנ"ל. But the כתר of בינה, that's the depth of the understanding, and that reaches all the way up, its source reaches all the way up to the depth of חכמה that we mentioned before.

And so when you reach the עומק המושג, you're reaching all the way up to the source of חכמה also. והבן בחכמה, and then understand with wisdom, that's בינה of חכמה, היינו ס"ג דע"ב, that's the name of 63 within the name of 72, or בינה within חכמה, שהוא כח ההסבר בחכמה עצמה, that's the power of explanation that's within חכמה itself, שיוכל להביאו בפנים מסבירות הרבה, that you're able to explain the חכמה in many ways.

So this is the level where you get a new idea, you get a חכמה, you see the point of the idea, and you see how from that point you could explain it in many different ways and apply it to many different things.

So that's the power of explanation that's hidden within the חכמה. והוא למעלה מהשגה דבינה עדיין, but this is still higher than an actual understanding in בינה. It's not an actual explanation yet, it's just that you see the עצם of the idea, you see the whole the whole picture in the חכמה, like the point, and you see you have the ability to explain that point in many ways and apply it to many things.

But you didn't actually bring out an explanation yet, like if you're actually seeing something. So when you're looking at something, you see the whole thing, and you see all of its details and how you could focus on different parts of it and explain it in different ways. So if I ask you to describe it to me, you can describe it in in all different ways and just keep describing, because you see the whole thing.

But right now, even though you see it and you notice all the details and the different distinctions, the different different parts of it that you could explain to me, but you didn't actually explain it, and you even to yourself you didn't explain it.

ומה שאמרו, and this that it says, נבונים לא אשתכחו, that משה רבינו, when he was looking for judges, so יתרו, his father-in-law, told him that he should find נבונים, he should find people of superior understanding.

But it says משה found, you know, the people with a lot of the qualifications, he gave him I think seven qualifications, but he didn't find נבונים.

What Makes a נבון vs a חכם 8:22

He didn't find people of this type of understanding. So what was so Seemingly, there are today there's a lot of people, very wise and talented people. Why why couldn't he find a נבון? What's such a big deal about a נבון? So he says the idea of a נבון, שהוא מבין דבר מתוך דבר דווקא. So it says a נבון is somebody that can understand one thing from something else.

So what's so hard about that? That just seems like just making a logical deduction. So we say, no, it's not it's not just making a logical deduction, but rather it's understanding one thing until you find the point of that, and you're able to see from the how the point of this idea explains something that's completely seems completely different and unrelated, and you're able to find the point that connects them.

So from one thing that you understand, you can go all the way in and find its point and source, and understand something completely different.

And this is like the האר"י ז"ל says, that somebody that knows how to make a ייחוד can know whatever he wants to know, because you can trace an idea all the way up to its source in the כתר, and you can bring it back down into any other חכמה you want, and from the חכמה into any בינה you want.

So this is the ability of of a נבון: to go take an idea and go all the way up to the כתר, and then bring it all the way back down to the בינה. So you can at will you can go from בינה to חכמה, and then from the חכמה to any other בינה you want.

You can always find the abstract point that you can that unites everything, and then bring that back and apply it to anything practical. So in order To be able to be free to move from בינה to חכמה and חכמה to בינה like that, that requires that you really are a master of חכמה and בינה, which means that you reach the כתר that connects them both.

So, היינו מצד שורש כח זה דהבנה בחכמה, שמגיע בעומק דחכמה הנ״ל. And the reason that this is such a special thing is because the ability to do this comes from the עומק of חכמה, from the depth of חכמה, which is the כתר. על כן יוכל להבין דבר חכמה אחרת לגמרי מתוך דבר חכמה זו.

And therefore you're able to take one idea, one חכמה, and understand from it a completely different idea, a completely different subject. So like from music you could understand math, or from math you could understand music, or from, you know, you could apply math to law, or law to psychology, or to physics. You could just like see how these seemingly unrelated things really connect.

Or like in a one סוגיא in the גמרא you're learning about, let's say, גיטין, and you could apply it to נזיקין, even though they seem totally unrelated. שזהו למעלה במדריגה מן החכם,

which this is much higher than a חכם, דהיינו מגופה של המצאת החכמה זו מאין, from just the ability to get a חידוש, to understand some new idea, שאינו מבין ממנה חכמה ושכל אחר, because that he doesn't understand from it a different שכל. Because just a regular חכם, so when he gets an idea, he gets a חידוש, a flash comes in, so good, he gets it. But he's stuck.

He can't he can't get If he didn't get a חידוש in something else, that's it, he didn't get the חידוש. He only got the חכמה. He got a flash of חכמה in whatever he got it in, and that's it.

But a נבון, whatever he understands, he can take it and from that understand anything else he wants to understand. This is what it says in רש״י when when he explains the difference between a נבון and a חכם.

So it says that he was asked by, I think, Arius, one of the חכמים in the גמרא was asked by this Christian Arius, the Rebbe has a שיחה about it, he asked him what what's the difference between a נבון and a חכם? So he explained to him a משל where רש״י brings it down, that it's like two money changers. One is rich and one is a one is an entrepreneur.

So the rich one, he sits there and when he gets business, he gets business. When he doesn't get business, so he he just waits. And the other one that's like a a go-getter, so when he has business, he has business. And when he doesn't have business, he goes knocking on people's doors and getting business.

So that's the difference, that a חכם, he sits there and he learns, and if he gets a חידוש and it comes to him, so it comes to him. And if it doesn't come, there's nothing he can do, it doesn't come.

The נבון, when he's sitting there and he's learning and he gets a חידוש, so he gets a חידוש. And when he doesn't get it, then he's able to go get it. Whenever he wants to understand something, he can go find it.

So the ability to do that means that he's reaching all the way up to the כתר, and he can actually bring out the חכמה at will.

So that's the מעלה of a נבון. ומכל מקום, now in this now we're going to have another parenthesis that's saying, ומכל מקום מה שבהשגת בינה מבין השגה חדשה מתוך השגה ההשגה זו,

How New Insight Arises Within בינה 13:12

the ability to get a חידוש within even the same השגה, which is the חכמה of בינה, which is a much lower level of חכמה, nevertheless, שרשה בהבנה דחכמה, the build the source of that ability comes from הבנה בחכמה, שמבין דבר מתוך דבר, because that's already like a thing of understanding one thing from something else, it's just you're only understanding one thing from something else within the בינה, within the same thing that you're learning.

But it really comes from that ability that you can find the חכמה and apply it from one thing to something else. רק שזה בהעלם מקור השכל וכו׳ וד״ל.

The only difference is that the בינה חכמה of בינה is in a revealed שכל, and בינה of חכמה, the power of הבנה בחכמה, is in the source of the שכל in חכמה, and not in the revealed understanding of בינה.