Why must the Creator hide from us? Why don’t we see the system of forces acting upon us? Why don’t we directly perceive the upper force in our world and our state and work with it openly as we do with the other forces of nature around us, those that influence us and that we in turn influence?

Why is it different with the Creator? After all, He affects us through all forces, and we somehow influence Him with our desires. Yet the source of everything that happens remains unknown, incomprehensible, and concealed from us.

This is done so that through all the forces that affect us and all the forces with which we can influence the Creator, we would come to reveal Him personally: His will, His perspective, His intention, and His attitude toward us.

For instance, if I interact with someone and do or say something that influences them, they begin to understand my attitude toward them, what I want from them, how I perceive them, and so forth. Similarly, I sense their influence on me and through this form an image of who they are.

Different people might act upon me in entirely similar ways but with varying combinations, and I would form completely different images of them. There are numerous nuances and possibilities here.

The same applies to the Creator, but on a far greater, broader, and richer scale. Through such interaction with the Creator, we begin to reveal Him.

Moreover, the Creator’s concealment is more complex and layered. With another person I can see them and engage in physical or virtual interaction. With the Creator, it is more complicated.

He is incomprehensible to me and for some reason remains hidden through everything that I perceive.

That is, my desires, intentions, thoughts, feelings, and everything that I perceive through them in the surrounding world are generated within me by the Creator. Essentially this means that “I” do not exist. There is only some “self” that senses what the Creator is doing to it and nothing more.

In other words, our connection, our relationship, is both vast (it encompasses everything I feel and this entire world) and hidden. I cannot see from where and why these things come to me. Thus the connection is multi-layered and consists of many layers of concealment.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “The Work in Concealment”

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