Question: What is happiness from the perspective of Kabbalah?

Answer: Happiness from the perspective of Kabbalah is making the Creator happy.

To make the Creator happy means to feel that you bring Him pleasure, that you make Him happy because when He looks at you, He rejoices. You feel how He rejoices in you; this is the greatest possible state! I do not even know how to convey it.

Maybe it is comparable to the feeling when parents are happy for their children. I have felt it myself, experienced it through my children and grandchildren, and I can say it is a great joy when your parents are happy for you.

But with the Creator, it is on a completely different level!

In Kabbalah, there is a dual, reciprocal connection: the Creator rejoices in the fact that we rejoice in making Him happy, and we are happy because of it.

We unite with Him, and therefore the feelings are doubled; they merge into one. It turns out that both I and He together feel the same thing. That is, the feeling of His happiness and mine are inseparable.

Question: How can one make the Creator happy?

Answer: The Creator is all of us together in full measure, in harmony, fusion, inner emotional and conscious connection. We, who are united with all hearts and minds, are the Creator. When everything comes together into a single whole, we perceive that as the Creator. Therefore, the Creator is attained precisely in this way—through our connection with one another.

Question: How can one be happy without having any idea who or what the Creator is? How can one strive toward Him?

Answer: The Creator must be revealed! The lack of understanding, the uncertainty is given to us precisely so that we can reveal the Creator. If it were already known, a person would exist in a spiritual-animalistic state, just like we live in an animal state in this world. That is, we must reach this new state ourselves, create it within ourselves, using the tools we have been given! But a person sculpts and shapes himself.

It turns out that a person as if takes matter and begins to work with it. And gradually, from the inanimate matter within, a living matter begins to form: vegetative, then animate, then human. All kinds of variations and metamorphoses arise.

It follows that the person himself builds within him this entire structure, connection, infinite combinations! All this is Sefirot, Sefirot, Sefirot. Eventually, it becomes DNA, all these proteins, spirals, the things we observe in biology.

But this is all on a higher level: the level of purpose where a person not only shapes and builds according to natural laws, but also reveals these laws himself, and implements them himself! In essence, it is a huge creative work. And that is why man enters into this work, and it is called the work of the Creator.

There is no greater pleasure than when a person creates all this within himself! And this awaits every one of us!

Question: What is the difference in happiness in receiving from the Creator or giving to Him?

Answer: It does not matter. Even receiving from the Creator means more than giving to Him if it is for the sake of unification and merging in similarity to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/19/16, “Kabbalistic formula of happiness – what is the secret?”

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