Question: Our goal is to reach the state of the Creator. The Creator is love. But what happens to hatred?

Answer: Hatred is necessary to create love above it. We cannot come to the feeling of love if hatred does not lie at its foundation. In nature, there are only two mutual feelings. You cannot say there is light without darkness or a positive without a negative.

We are accustomed to the idea that the opposite exists automatically in our world. But in the spiritual world, it is not automatic. Even in our world, take any system that we build, can you perform an action without a counteraction? You cannot, whether in mechanics, electronics, or anything else. The same applies to spirituality. There, these are fundamental laws: the positive force is the Creator, and the negative force, what He created, is the creation. And that is all there is.

Therefore, when you say, “The Creator’s attribute is to give,” I do not know what “giving” is by itself. It is the Creator; I do not feel Him. I can only know Him if this attribute is clothed within me. And since I am the property of receiving, how can I reveal the Creator in the attribute of receiving?

That is what the science of Kabbalah deals with, the science of revealing the Creator. It teaches that you must take control of your property of receiving, make a restriction, not consider it as the force with which you work, but only as the force over which you work, and start creating the attribute of giving above the attribute of receiving.

Otherwise, you will not be able to do anything because the attribute of giving is created in you as a reflection, the opposite of your attribute of receiving. Therefore, we build the Creator within ourselves, create a likeness of Him. Out of what? Out of our egoism when we make on it a restriction (Tzimtzum), screen (Masach), and reflected light (Ohr Hozer), and thus create a reflection of the Creator, like in a mirror that is the reflected light.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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