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Previously:
Chapter 1.01 - Chapter 1.15 were based on Chapter 1 of Shaar Hayichud (The Gate of Unification) of the Mittler Rebbe the Holy Reb DovBer of Lubavitch may his merit protect us. Chapter 2.xx are based on Chapter 2
Summary of chapter one:
Chochma Binah Daas
Length width and depth of Chabad
Kesser Chochma Bina' KeChaV of Chabad
And now Chapter 2.01
In addition to the levels of Eeyun (delving into the depth of Binah), Ma’amik (delving further into the depths of Chochmah itself) and Ha’amakos Ha’daas (the concentration, which serves as a vessel for these delvings), which were explained in chapter one it is known to those familiar with Kabbalah and Chassidus that there are also two levels included within Binah itself: Binah and Tvunah.
Now the definition of Tvunah is the extension of the light of Binah (as it is stated in the Zohar that the lower Father and Mother (the upper Father and Mother are Chochmah and Binah) are Yisroel Sabah ( lit. Israel the elder or Israel the patriarch) and Tvunah; and it (Tvunah) is called the lower Mother etc.. This insert serves to reference a classical source, which discusses the difference between Binah itself and Tvunah and that Tvunah is only the lower aspect of Binah meaning how it spreads to the outside.) This extension occurs as a result of the proper absorption of the concept in the vessel that receives the understanding of Binah (i.e., the brain). Therefore, since the concept was absorbed thoroughly it spreads out from itself to bring the concept into many things separate from the essential theoretical understanding. (What this means will be explained later in the chapter.)
This is what is called a "man of Tvunah," as it is stated "Counsel is like deep waters in the heart of man; and the man of understanding (Tvunah) will draw them forth." In this verse deep waters are symbolically representative of the depths of Binah, which remain hidden in one’s self. So that the true point of an idea as it is in the depth of Binah itself cannot be expressed in words to be explained to someone else. However, specifically a man of Tvunah can draw out the deep waters of Binah and bring them out of their hiddenness, to bring them to expression in many different ways. (Examples of these different ways will be explained later.)
This is analogous to a shepherd who draws waters that from a deep well to give sheep to drink etc. So that just like a shepherd brings water that is too deep for the sheep to reach, up to them and places it in a water trough, so that, now the water is not deep down at all, but rather it is right at the level of the sheep, making it is easy for them to drink. Similarly, this is what we see tangibly that when an idea is too deep to be contained by the understanding of a person, which -such an idea- is called ‘deep waters’ etc., which is the level of the depth of the understandable concept(Omek HaMusag) (i.e. the idea as it is in the understanding of Binah), which was mentioned previously , from where the length and width came out as explained in Chapter 1. And specifically a man of Tvunah can draw this depth forth, meaning that he brings to light the level of the hidden depth of the understandable concept (i.e., as the concept is in Binah); until it can be contained by the understanding of a person, just as if it was not deep at all. Like the shepherd who draws the deep waters for the sheep; so that he brings the depth closer etc., so that what was previously deep is now at surface level. So too the man of Tvunah is one who can explain a deep theoretical concept to another in simple terms and analogies, making the concept understandable in a down-to-earth way.
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