RDK - R'Yehoshua Ben Levi

(Ch.26)
Last time began world of Moshe as expressed in ahava raba
Shift in sha'ar
When M&A say nachmu it is def'n of their nature and identity
Different from world of avot
Different b'n havaya and
Ma is with aleph, unfication, essence
Ba is diiferent
Aleph is a vav on a slant with 2 yud's, gematria 26
Orientation to essence and unity
Ma is non-presence
Denial
After saying there is nothing left of you
Completely lost in presence of divine
Act of abnegation
What did you think we are?
What is that?
Not interested in its functions
Unrelated to anything
'Mahut'
Reflected in kabbalah - Ma and Ben
Ban - 52 -
Ma - ?
Yud is chochma is essence
Chochma is Ma
Bina is Ban
After seeing the sneh, M goes to par'o
Who am i?
... I am with you.
Bina is the power of redemption
The wise man has what he has
Bina is the ability to derive one thing from another
Ma is the essence in presence
Redeem involves ability to step the next step
To find out 'who' it is, requires context and expression
Who we are is defined with bina
E'he'ye - I will be with you
I don't provide names - ma
E'he'ye & E'he'ye
First appearance, after Gd asks, who am I
E'he'ye is the def'n of both Gd and man
Par'o is a disrupter
Lots of boundaries in Egypt (euclidean plane)
Subjugation and oppression has no connection to spirituality
Mitzra'im is 'meitzar', confinement of me.
Physics & geometry is the opposite of Gd/spirituality.
E'he'ye means i will be - Essence and core
Modality and personality is governed by e'he'ye
Identity is essence&core, liberating
Personality are the pieces
Self is the integration and expression
Self-dedication is confinement & control
E'he'ye is dynamic, expose yourself
David HaMelech is dynamic
Sha'ul was trapped in his image, paranoia
E'he'ye is a mode of becoming
Becoming free
E'he'ye is uncommonly used
Malchut is a reflection of bina
Selfhood is the end and emergent personality
Selfhood, if it loses bina, becomes self-serving and non-expansive
Moshe needa to go in with E'he'ye, not with Ma.
E'he'ye is the power of liberation.
E'he'ye is the keter
Ari: E'he'ye is in keter and bina
Doubled E'he'ye, 1st is keter, asher is chochma, 2nd is bina
... I am, that is, what i become
2nd E'he'ye is the revelation of Gd
Expansion and moving out
Only way to be in resemptive posture, needs preceding with E'he'ye and Asher, essential stillness and listening
Asher is the anchor, or else it comes with too much frredom - hippie, footloose.
Moshe is ma.
In M's presence, everything can begin to expand.
Zohar: bina is a river flowing out of Eden.
Needs to achieve a sense of presence & worth.
Bina is the source of simcha and liberation
Zohar: 50 times in the chumash
Mi is 50 times
E'he'ye is the only name of Gd in 1st person
But as soon as you say it, it is yourself.
It is the expression of Gd in this world.
Ban is mi, who, my power
Beginning in anochi, keter
Nothingness to the Ma

Moshe asks for an identity when he goes to see Par'o.

(Yovel is 50 - Mi - comes back to primary identity, beginning. It is also shavuot)
Nachala is bina
Shavuot is nata betochenu
Chachamim are guiding with a 'cattle prod', but they're not moving around. But they are not stuck, they are planted. Therefore able to grow. They have a foundation.
When the malchut becomes a separate reality, then we get disconnected and enclose ourselves in a mitzraim
Always reference to source before reacting
Moshe in the desert finds Yitro the 'Keni' and marries tzippora

Ultimately, Ma is static. Asher and chochma allows us to respond.
Nature unfolds so that if we stay passive in the Ma, then we are abortive of Gd's revelation in this world.
Nature of reality is that Gd is always calling us forth.
Ma will lead into Mi. Gd is calling us to task.
Asher is an affirmation.