His operations did not come to be by many thoughts, as is our way, for He is one, unique, and unified. And as He is simple, His lights, which are extended from Him, are simple and unified, without any proliferation of forms, as it is written, “My thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not My ways.”

Therefore, understand and perceive that all the names and appellations, and all the worlds, upper and lower, are all one simple, unique, and unified light. In the Creator, the light that is extended, the thought, the operation, the operator, and anything the heart can think and contemplate, are one and the same thing in Him (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot – Inner Observation).

Question: How can it be understood that plan and action are one and the same for the Creator?

Answer: Only in relation to us is it divided into several actions, but for the Creator, there is no division at all and no actions whatsoever. We feel different actions because we exist in impure desires, in Klipa. The Klipa creates time; it stretches it like rubber. You have one action, and you stretch it out and separate its parts from one another, as if pulling rubber; that is the action of the Klipa.

The Creator does not have such a thing, and therefore His thought, action, the beginning of creation and its end are all contained in one single plan. And in this plan, there are no details at all; it is only in relation to us that it begins to manifest itself as the four phases of direct light and all the further development. For the Creator everything is contained in the very root, at the “tip of the letter Yod,” and not even in the Yod itself, but even higher than that where we already exist in His plan.

And all the rest of the development takes place in relation to the created beings, so that they may understand, feel, and attain where they are and that they exist at all.

The root of impure desire, Klipa, also lies in the Creator, for it is His direct opposite, like His reverse imprint. Light creates darkness, its reverse side (in Hebrew, “Ohr” means light, and in Aramaic, “Orta” means night). There is none else besides the Creator! But He turns to you, sometimes with His face, sometimes with His back, so that you can study Him in this way.

It is as if He says: “You did not want to get to know Me in a good state, so now I’m going to arrange adventures for you and make you get to know Me from the bad side so that you will understand that before I related to you kindly. If you now understand, then I will return to goodness again, but after this whole circle you will begin to value My attitude. And this does not mean that I need your attitude so much, but then you will begin to understand what kind of quality you have acquired: the quality of love and bestowal.

It seems to us as though He deliberately does this to spite us. But the Creator does not want to teach us this way; it is only we who feel it so.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/15/11, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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