Creator and Torah on the Spiritual Path
Question: How can a person envision the concepts of the “Creator” and the “Torah” on the spiritual path?
Answer: The Torah is the entire light that corrects us and the light that then fills us.
Baal HaSulam writes in the “Introduction to The Book of Zohar“: Each of the 613 organs in that Partzuf fully shine in their own unique way, each as an independent Partzuf. Then there opens before him the possibility to engage in each Mitzva according to its true intention, for each organ in Partzuf Neshama illuminates for him the paths of each Mitzva related to that organ.
Through the great power of those lights, he purifies the speaking part of his will to receive and inverts it into a desire to bestow.
He explains that our desire consists of 613 parts, completely egoistic and broken. These broken desires are corrected by our request and from our efforts to connect with one another because they connect us to each other like threads, each with everyone else.
They are corrected with the help of 613 lights, which are called the “613 lights of the Torah.” And when I correct these 613 desires, they connect with the same 613 desires of another person. It turns out that we are all connected by 613 desires, threads, of each person with all the others, and one common network of mutual bestowal emerges.
My 613 desires recognize and understand the 613 desires in each person and in everyone together, and unite with all to bestow to everyone. And then all the light passes through me, all the fulfillment that I want to fill everyone else with!
The common light that is revealed in order to fill us all is called the Creator (Bo–Reh), that is, “come and see” how He clothes Himself in you.
So I have 613 uncorrected desires, and in order to correct them, I need 613 lights of correction, which are called the Torah, “the light that returns to the source.” And then the Creator clothes in these corrected desires of mine and reveals Himself in the connection between us.
It turns out that Israel (the corrected desires), the Torah (the light that corrected these desires) and the Creator, Who clothes in this entire system, unite into one whole.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/28/11, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Torah and the Creator Are One”
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