Two Opposing Laws

232.05In Rabash’s article “What Is the Prohibition to Teach Torah to Idol-Worshippers in the Work?” he discusses the essence of the prohibition against teaching Torah to idol worshippers. Actually, as we usually say, according to the law, there is no prohibition.

After all, we are below all the degrees of the ladder; each rung represents spiritual laws that emerged as a result of the first restriction (Tzimtzum Aleph) and descended through a chain of cause-and-effect.

All these laws essentially stem from one thing: the will to receive that exists in Malchut of the world of Ein Sof, and its decision to attain a desire to bestow like that of the one who created it. That is all there is: the law of the will to receive, which the Creator created, and the law of equivalence of form, which the created being willingly took upon itself.

These two laws are opposite to one another. The law of the will to receive is that this desire acts solely for its own benefit, for its own fulfillment. The law of equivalence of form, on the other hand, is that the will to receive must act for the purpose of fulfilling the Creator, which is called bestowal. And from the clash between these two laws arise all the other conditions, which, in essence, constitute the spiritual degrees.

Thus, a ladder came into being at its highest degree the law of equivalence of form operates, while at its lowest degree only the law of the will to receive operates. On the intermediate degrees, these two laws share their influence upon the created being.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/28/26, Rabash, “What Is the Prohibition to Teach Torah to Idol-Worshippers in the Work?”

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