In the spiritual world, dressing a person in the upper light is called beauty. This is a feeling of harmony and absolute perfection; it is when all opposites add up to one harmonious whole, and when absolutely all contradictory qualities, actions, thoughts, and desires are balanced and come into agreement.

In nature, there are only two opposite qualities—receiving and bestowing, the Creator and creation. When these two opposite qualities come together, the light of Hochma manifests itself in the light of Hassadim, the light of reception in the light of bestowal. This manifestation is called beauty.

It is cardinal, primary, and fundamental; it is where all our ideas about beauty come from.

Question: What is ugliness?

Answer: When two seemingly opposite phenomena, properties, or actions (contradictory in relation to a person) cannot be combined with each other, then this is considered unacceptable, ugly, and imperfect for him.

That is, beauty is not in the appearance of a person, or a bird, or something else. This concept is abstract, and not some kind of appearance. Beauty can be inner beauty, beauty of thoughts, feelings, beauty not only of our world. It’s not just some flat image.

But even in a flat image you can find a standard of beauty. For example, a ratio such as in the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci. Or a ratio when the right and left sides of the face are absolutely clearly symmetrical to each other, and so on. They hint at the concepts that Kabbalah operates with, as an absolutely correct combination of right and left lines in the middle line.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Beauty” 1/9/11

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