Question: In the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah, Baal HaSulam describes how worlds emerge from the four phases of the development of desire. World (Olam) comes from the word “Olama,” that is, concealment. What should be concealed after the Creator has created a desire?

Answer: Creating a desire is one thing, but making a creation from it is quite another.

The creation must sense that it was created by someone above it, and feel what it should do to implement the actions of its maker. This is a continuation of the development of creation based on what is in it, because the last phase of Malchut consists of the previous parts and can begin to transform itself, and adjust to the form it chooses.

And it chooses to be similar to the Creator, that is, to become not a desire, but a source of desire.

Therefore, it begins to receive light in the way that the first phase wants to give it. That is, Malchut begins to transform itself to become a giver.

The creation must be a source of light, i.e., become similar to the Creator and be like Him. Therefore, all concealments are necessary for the creation to become independent, and to want to be like this source itself.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 7/16/23

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