Bless the Concealment
The Creator created concealment that distances, separates, repels, and confuses, instead of appearing immediately and openly; He hides in order to awaken in us the yearning, passion, and desire to reach Him!
This is the whole purpose of concealment—the necessity of creating impure forces (Klipot) that preserve us until we achieve the correct desire for the Creator.
They are holding us back like dogs straining on a leash, ready to pounce on someone.
He hides until we acquire the only true, completely bestowing desire, which can no longer be extinguished by encountering Him.
After you reveal the Creator within you, it will not disappear, unlike the desires of our world where—after we receive what we longed for, we immediately cease to appreciate it.
On the contrary, we should increasingly appreciate and love this pleasure, because it carries within itself the attitude of the bestower towards us.
Therefore, in all these concealments and rejections created by the Creator, we must see a flirtation, a game leading us to the correct desire.
Not just a desire of great power, but the right form, so that we seek not the pleasure from the encounter with the fulfillment, but the pleasure from the encounter with the bestower.
It is like a woman demanding an internal connection from a man in an external action. We need to learn spirituality from the psychology of our life.
We need to understand the essence of concealment, of flirtation, of this entire game in which the Creator sometimes draws us closer and sometimes pushes us away.
And until we begin to appreciate Him and with His help build the right attitude toward the encounter with Him, perceiving pleasure as a means to connect with Him, we will not attain revelation!
He is waiting for us to desire Him more than the pleasure He brings. Then we will be ready to receive this pleasure and, within it, reveal the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/1/2009, Writings of Baal HaSulam Preface “Introduction to A Sage’s Fruit (Three Partners)”
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