We constantly forget that there is none else besides the Creator. This is done intentionally by the Creator, the one who governs everything. He changes the pictures that appear before us, and we forget that all of this is an imaginary world. It is called an imaginary world because it conceals the Creator from us.

The Creator hides behind the world we see around us. The inanimate, plant, and animal nature, and people, and a person himself with his inner world—all conceal the Creator from people. We must not forget this. And therein lies the problem. As Baal HaSulam writes, the greatest punishment for a person is when he disconnects from the Creator, i.e., the Creator Himself disconnects him, because the person does nothing on his own.

Therefore all our work consists of constantly remembering that there are the Creator and the person, and between them is this picture of the imaginary world. A person should not erase this picture, but should relate it to the Creator. The Creator creates all these images before him, and the person must forcefully connect them to Him. The Creator does this so that the person can transform all these forms of concealment into revelations, and nothing more.

We have no other work. In all our lives, in everything that exists, we must turn concealment, when the world hides the Creator from me, into revelation. This concealment comes only from the Creator, and I must relate all these images to Him.

The inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature, and especially humans are all just puppets, marionettes, various images that have no freewill in relation to me, and they have no independent reality.

In the end, they are all just a wrapper in which the Creator is wrapped so that I may reveal Him precisely through it. If I manage to penetrate through this wrapper, to each time relate it to Him, to understand that it is Him who is playing with me, and it is Him who is doing all this, then this wrapper transforms from concealment into revelation.

We must constantly hold on to this and strengthen each other in such perception of reality. This is our main work. And then we will see that we are already directly working with the Creator, always trying to reveal “There is none else besides Him” and “The good who does good” in every obstacle He places between Himself and us.

We need to constantly live with this picture, with this perception, with the reality, we envision. And our work must always be in this direction. The pictures of the world should not enslave us and play with us so that we follow them. On the contrary, we always focus on the Creator, and the pictures of the world serve only to strengthen the connection between us and Him.

This is both a person’s individual work and his work through the group. The individual work is preparatory, and the work through the group is truly blessed; there, responsibility and mutual support are required.

Because after a person tries to recognize the Creator behind every obstacle, he encounters such diverse and complex obstacles that only with the help of the group does he acquire the correct approach to the Creator, who is within it. Then he begins to build within the group a system that reveals the Creator as acting in diverse forms on all the qualities, feelings, mind, and heart of the person.

There is a difference in “There is none else besides Him” in relation to an individual and in relation to a group. At the lower level, personal revelation is possible for an individual, but at the main levels, a person already feels that he needs the group, and it is the instrument through which he reveals the Creator in all His manifestations, i.e., in the ten Sefirot.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Purim

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