The Creator is the force of bestowal and love, and for one who loves, there is immense suffering in not having the opportunity to bring contentment to the one they love.

The suffering from unrealized bestowal is far greater than from not receiving, as it is written: “More than the calf wants to suckle, the cow wants to feed.”

When the big one cannot give from their perfection to the small one because the latter is incapable of receiving anything, this causes great pain.

The Creator is the desire to give and to bestow, the desire to love. And we should not think that this does not involve a sense of lack!

It is simply not from unfulfilled needs; it is from unshared perfection! Therefore, the Creator creates the desire to enjoy in order to fill it and express His love to it.

In our desire, all the preparations have already been made to receive all of the Creator’s light and His love.

But in order for us to understand what He is doing and to feel what He is giving us, we must become like Him in stature and in qualities.

Therefore, only one component is missing here—our independence, our own desire to feel His love and to accept Him as our beloved.

After all, if this yearning does not come from us, it will not be love. Can love be bought with money? No.
With money, I can only buy services: I pay in a hair salon, in a clinic, or at a restaurant, and they take care of me wholeheartedly, but it is because they love money and not me.

So how can I make them love me? That, we do not know.

True love is only possible if I am completely independent of the other, and regarding the Creator, it is written: “I am the first and I am the last.”

Therefore, the Creator’s problem is how to create us, to bring us into being, and at the same time make us as if completely independent of Him.

And at the same time, He expects us to cultivate our love for Him within ourselves about which I must then say: “I am the first, and I am the last!”

This means that the ten Sefirot of the direct light are clothed in the ten Sefirot of the reflected light and they complement one another.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/15/10, Introduction of The Book of The Zohar “Lock and Key”

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