אמת (part 8). 1) אמת of Hashem affects the world cont. 2) Introduction to: א. הוא קיים ושמו קיים וכסאו נכון ב. חזקים כיום הבראם, קיימין במין וקיימין באיש

Introducing three points. The simplest thing to understand about Hashem is מציאותו מעצמותו- He wasn’t made, He always was. A bit more involved is the idea of מחוייב המציאות- His existence is an imperative, vs. אפשרי המציאות- an existence which is not imperative because it is dependent.

Continued.

One מציאות will meet another מציאות, as opposed to a בלתי מציאות.

When two מציאות meet they interact in a friction-like (or at least in a way that they change each other) way. Using tension and friction as examples a number of examples are cited for the idea of a מציאות and especially when two מציאות meet.

This class ties the issue of tension and friction in with the question of עבודה צורך גבוה. Basically the idea is מציאות can touch מציאות and you can say about that צורך גבוה. But מציאות cannot touch בלתי מציאות so you cannot say צורך גבוה. How this this is in עצמות was not satisfactorily explained…

Introduction: צמצום הראשון cannot happen without מקום. צמצום הראשון is the departure from this place. The question is whether the departure is actual צמצום כפשוטו or figurative (only for us) צמצום שלא כפשוטו. Another question is whether the צמצום affects אור or מאור also. The Alter Rebbe introduces the radical idea of המאור אדרבה הוא…

(continued). Only a מציאות נמצא which is אור would interfere with the world and would need be removed in צמצום הראשון. And even that is שלא כפשוטו. But Hashem Himself needs no צמצום as He is no מציאות and interferes with nothing. Moreover, His מציאות is בהתגלות as we’ll explain soon IYH.

המאור הוא בהתגלות cont. The idea that He that is מציאות בלתי מציאות נמצא is known without any announcing of self or interaction. We know Him because we have Him in us.

Review (one more time). Stories that describe being without any expression; yet being very present as a way of understanding המאור הוא בהתגלות.