Part 2 · More on Chapter 28

Seeing Godliness in Nature vs. Inside 0:02

So yeah, now we kind of only see one at a time and we only see it in like a limited way, and sometimes we see godliness more and sometimes we see it less. For example, when I walk through the woods here, I see godliness more easily than when I'm sitting in my house or in or in the שול, because I see like the wisdom and beauty and like, you know, all the amazing things in nature, and I see more life, more חיות and more godliness, than when I'm looking at, you know, plasterboard walls that are man-made and like to me that covers up the godliness, because I don't see like the direct involvement of God.

It look cuz it went through so many more like intermediaries of man, and even though like man is just manipulating the things that God made and the whole way that people work and their intellect and their abilities is totally given by God and so really He's doing He made the house also, not just the tree, but I don't see see it as much. You know what I mean?

And so in a way there's like more God's wisdom is even more expressed in my house because the way that He is able to like use people and use all these extra intermediaries like make the house come out and make it, you know, is is like in a way of bigger wisdom. Cuz you know it's not like it's direct, so it requires like more, you know, God have to like pull all these strings and arrange all these things to influence the architects so it should come out in this way, you know what I mean?

Avoid Marveling at Man‑Made Greatness 1:32

I once heard such a thing that you're not supposed to be like מתבונן on man-made things for like גדלות הבורא. But, you know what I mean, so you should but I think that that that if you turn it into a God-made thing, that it's different. You know what I mean?

In other words, that I think the ענין is that you shouldn't like go look at like a skyscraper and stuff like that and be נתפעל like how big it is and so, wow, you know, God's even greater, because really you're being נתפעל from human achievement.

But there is I think a good See, that's what I heard. I don't know, I never saw it, so I can't really like Sometimes the context people mess up and whatever, but I can see that there's probably something to that.

You can make an ענין on everything, for sure.

On the other hand, I really like when I go out to, you know, nature more, I feel like when you go to a city, man covered over godliness with cement and wood and whatever, and then ממש makes like a קליפה that makes it harder to see, cuz they cover it up with all their stuff.

Yeah, that's like חכמה דא״ק and חכמה דאצילות. The way that you see the wisdom in the tree, and those kind of things, and like and also the specific that it comes in a specific form, what we know as being like, you know, wisdom and like order, and certain things to us seem like orderly and logical, really God created that. That's the thing people like don't realize. You know what I mean, God created the whole idea of like order, that certain things are graceful to us, and and certain things strike us as being logical and orderly and beautiful and like having a design.

Order, Chaos, and the Paradox of Beauty 3:16

You know what I mean? But nowadays there people are starting to expand their view of that, and starting to appreciate that like really like chaos itself has an order, like the whole chaos theory, and like that there's a beauty in that itself, and they're starting to like fudge the whole line of like order and chaos, and like seeing how really like both of them have both in them, and that's like in a way, that paradox in a way is like the greatest beauty of it.

And like it's like this whole deeper view on things, but it's all stemming from the fact that really God creates the whole idea of what's logical and what's beautiful and what's graceful, and you know what I mean? And so really it's not inherently like an order, it's like a it's really a chaos that

because it's really just that God is choosing to do whatever He wants, and then He chose to make it logical. And you know what I mean, and why should like a certain thing be logical? Like, it's hard for people to realize that.

Like 1 1 is 2. The fact that we see that as being like obviously so and just like very logical is is just because God made us that way, but it's not it's not really You know what I mean, why should it be?

Lights of אצילות and the עשר ספירות בלי מה 4:30

Yeah, it'd be a whole different reality if God made different כלים in אצילות. And that's

so this is why the lights of אצילות are still called עשר ספירות בלי מה, that even though it's already very tangible compared to א״ק, in other words, that now the God is being revealed in in in the lights of אצילות God is being revealed before it comes in the vessel, but the lights God is being revealed as like being infinitely wise, or like create inherently like who being like the essentially a creator.

In other words, that the light of חסד of אצילות that God is inherently, essentially a creator, and so therefore everything is essentially created by Him every single moment, and every aspect of it is being created from, but now that's a light. So seemingly that light is very limited compared to when you're looking from א״ק's point of view, because in א״ק's point of view, God was higher than the whole thing of creation and chose to to connect Himself to it.

And now you're looking at God as being inherently this creator. You're like defining God by that quality.

Nevertheless, we say that that is בלי מה compared to the vessels of אצילות. In other words, that this thing that God is like inherently a creator is still infinite, undefined compared to the particular creations that God is going to use to manifest that aspect, that like that thing of Himself, that quality.

And the reason why it that that light can be infinite like that is because God connected it to His essence, and just like He is infinite and He is not limited and He's like, you know, has free choice, so now this quality takes on all those characteristics: it's infinite, and it's not bound to anything, and it can come out in any way that He chooses. So now within this quality, it it it it's like בלי מה and it's infinite.

So even though it's like just like a color, and it's something that's really like, you know, not essentially connected to God's essence, but once He chose to connect Himself to it, it becomes like an intrinsic thing, and it becomes like takes on the qualities of God's essence by way of association.

Trees as a Reflection of Infinite Creation 6:43

How we see it in a tree? That,

well, the way that we see it is really like the fact that that

the tree is just is just really one example of the way the tree could be. But God could use, you know, the same like creative ability or the same wisdom or whatever, God could make it in infinite ways. We see that there's like a wisdom and there's like a the we see the inherent ability behind it, and we see the tree is just like one representation, one example of God's ability to make a tree.

But we realize that really God could do it, you know, in infinite different ways. And that's that's where we go from the fact that there's so many different trees and each one is different, and they're all, you know what I mean, constantly growing new things and they're always different. You know what I mean? And there's so many different types of trees, and like the that diversity shows us more and more that really it's infinite.

And it's really it's just like this creative ability that God like is choosing, you know, chooses how it's going to come out, but it's not like a system, like a machine or something that like just, you know, pumps out these things in like a it's not like a human isn't it's not it it's not, it's not like a you know, like a strict order. It really has a certain element of chaos and just like free choice involved.

But again, when you ask me to give you an example within the tree, I'm like showing you how it's revealed within of the vessels. That within the vessel you see like that really behind it is some is is like the light, whereas the light itself is like the just the the concept of it, which is what I'm like telling you first.

In other words, by the fact that inherently, everything must be like created every single second by God, is you know what I mean be recreated every is recreated every single moment from by God, the fact that that is just like the the way that the reality is, that is the real thing of like the light of חסד of אצילות. And like the tree, the way that you see that in a tree is where that light is manifest through the vessel of אצילות into בי״ע.

It's like a הארה of הארה of הארה, but nevertheless, it's important to see it there, because that's where you see it in like a פרט. And so that's where it becomes close to you, when you're able to like when you see it in the פרטים, that's where you see it in a way that's קרוב to you. But then you have to like extrapolate the כלל from the פרטים and realize that like in other words, that the real thing that you're trying to recognize is the כללות, to not just see like in a tree, but to recognize that the nature of reality is that it is dependent on God every single moment to be recreated.

From Details to Generalities: Recognizing the כלל 9:17

That is the כלל. And the התבוננות is that you should you want to try to see, how does I how do I see that in a tree? How do I see that in a bug?

You know what I mean? How do I see that in the stock market? And when you see how each of these things reflects that truth in like a way that you You can actually point to it, then the truth becomes much more apparent and much more real to you, because you see it in the פרטים.

Nevertheless, the פרטים are only like a reflection of it when it's like מתלבש in the כלים and those are going into the אותיות of מחשבה, דיבור, מעשה, all the way down to עשייה, so it's like a הארה of a הארה of a הארה.

But you know, when you find the way that it's reflected in the פרט, then you really see the כלל, like much more truly.

So you need both. You kind of need to like recognize the כלל, which is like what we're doing now, and after you understand the כלל, then you have to מתבונן into the פרטים and like see it in the tree.