Approach the Creator in Three Lines
The revelation of the Creator represents two mutually opposite actions for us. On the one hand, the revelation should awaken even greater egoism in us, our difference from the Creator; on the other hand, we should give this egoism the correct form in which we would become like the Creator.
These two opposite forms should be in us simultaneously and go in parallel: left – right, left – right.
The left line is the difference from the Creator. Moreover, this difference can be qualitative or quantitative according to different parameters.
At each of the 125 degrees, there are three more degrees: conception (Ibur), the small state (Yenika), the large state (Mochin). The 125 degrees are an ascent through the five worlds to complete similarity to the Creator.
At these degrees we always go through two states: the difference from the Creator and the similarity to Him. Each step is determined by these two opposite actions, sensations, adhesion, and revelations.
Therefore there is a left line, a right line, and a middle line. In the left line, our egoism is awakened; it is our difference from the Creator. In the right line, we make egoism into His likeness, as if we give this egoism the form of the Creator, and then we are called “Adam” (man).
In the middle line, a person connects with the Creator, that is, the right and left lines connect and form adhesion with the Creator that is called “Dvekut.”
This is our work in three lines. Everyone who advances further, his egoism in the left line increases, but he can correct it with the help of the group and with the help of prayer to the Creator.
Thus the left line is egoism, the right line is its correction, and the middle line is the connection with the Creator based on what a person has acquired in the left and right lines. This is how a person approaches the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “Turning to the Creator”
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