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And in Daas there is also length and width and depth. For example one whose Daas (Attention, attachment to the idea) is short and one whose Daas is long and one whose Daas is wide but not long and a strong Daas or a light Daas such as women whose Daas is light, that is, without the depth of Daas and automatically his Daas is short etc.
and this difference between those of light Daas and deep Daas, between a mature adult and a young child is known. that the child's Daas is light, that is he does not have the (mental) power of feeling and connection to this thing that he understands or wants except in a very external way that's why he can easily be swayed to its opposite.
Whereas it is not like that by an adult whose Daas is deep into this thing which he understands or wants and this is called Haamokas HaDaas (the Deep connection or concentration of the mind) and therefore there will automatically be the length of Daas and the width of Daas as explained above about Binah.
And the sign of Haamokas HaDaas is when it looks as if he is concentrating and compressing his brain because of his great connection to the Muskal (the Idea)...
[He is very taken up and strongly squeezed into it because he is very concentrated into one aspect and view]
...and it is specifically from this (concentration) that the essence of the depth of the Hasoga comes through the Iyun of Binah which is the opposite of concentration and compression since the Iyun of Binah, even though he stands over it and tarries in a concentrated compressed way in the beginning, but immediately he spreads out into a great width into all the particular divisions (of the concept) with a very particular examination as is know.
However it is not so with the concentration compression of Haamakas Hadaas (the deepening of Daas), on the contrary, it's just the concentration which is the gathering and collection of the entire power of his brain to be connected exclusively to this (particular) Muskal (idea), which is the opposite of the spreading out of the Iyun with the widening of the subject of the Muskal. However, it is specifically through Haamokas HaDaas (concentration on the subject matter) that he comes to the depth of the Muskal all the way till its source in the depths of Chochmah and Binah. [All the way to Daas Elion (Upper Daas i.e. Kesser) which joins Chochmah and Binah together as was explained above about the depth of the Musag of Binah. And this is (what it means when it says that) Daas is hidden in the mouth of the Mother (Binah) etc. And like they said: Moses, who is the Daas, merited to Binah which is the Shaar HaNun (the 50th gate) because this depends on that (i.e. Daas & Binah are interdependent) as it is written in the Writings and in various places, and this is enough for he who understands.)
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