Class One. Two types of seeing through the”garments” of the eye and directly from the Etzem Two types of Hashgacha: 1) through מלאכים that act like eyes, 2) directly- כאישון עיני. Two types of Avodah: Mind and heart and Essence- Yechida, There’s a bringing of the higher level into and through the lower level.
Class Two. The Avoda of דירה בתחתונים. The idea of אישון עיני underscores that the great source of the Neshama is only revealed in darkness, down here. Three aspects: A. The ירידה צורך עלי’ה as understood in the analogy of the זונה שהזהר הקדוש B. The very essence of what the Neshama is and the delight it brings Hashem is only revealed through its separation from its source. C. The home of Hashem where one can even appear on occasion ערום revealing the very essence is only in this, the lowest world. This then is the meaning of נעשה אדם בצלמינו כדמותינו that even down here the essence of טהורה היא shines.
