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Koach HaSechel SheBenefesh, the '''power of intellect in the soul,''' is a manifestation of the soul that gives a person the ability to process intellect. | Koach HaSechel SheBenefesh, the '''power of intellect in the soul,''' is a manifestation of the soul that gives a person the ability to process intellect. | ||
This power | This power is revealed in stages and thus has various froms (which can generaly be split in three): | ||
# As it is concealed within the essence of the soul, it is called '''[[hiyuli]]'''<ref>= Abstract potential intellect before manifestation (Infinite potential). In Kabbalistic terminology, it is called '''chochmah stimaah''' (concealed wisdom—beyond conscious grasp), in the language of the [[Geonim]] '''sechel muflah''' ("wondrous" intellect—intellect distant and foreign), and it is the power of '''hiyuli intellect''' (''Sefer Maamarim 5689'', "Bayom HaShemini," sec. 52).</ref> (and sometimes by the name '''av''' [father]), | # As it is concealed within the essence of the soul, it is called '''[[hiyuli]]'''<ref>= Abstract potential intellect before any manifestation (Infinite potential). In Kabbalistic terminology, it is called '''chochmah stimaah''' (concealed wisdom—beyond conscious grasp), in the language of the [[Geonim]] '''sechel muflah''' ("wondrous" intellect—intellect distant and foreign), and it is the power of '''hiyuli intellect''' (''Sefer Maamarim 5689'', "Bayom HaShemini," sec. 52).</ref> (and sometimes by the name '''av''' [father]), [at this stage it is not apprent at all and it is too abstract to be even a "source for intellection."] | ||
# As it extends to become a source for intellection it is called '''koach hamaskil''' (the power that intellectualizes, which is the source and root of all intellectual concepts), | # As it extends to become a source for intellection it is called '''koach hamaskil''' (the power that intellectualizes, which is the source and root of all intellectual concepts), | ||
# And when it comes to expression during actual [[Machshavah|thought]] it is called revealed intellect. | # And when it comes to expression during actual [[Machshavah|thought]] it is called revealed intellect. | ||