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These five lights are the light that the Creator created on the first day. Adam was watching it from the end of the world to its end (Zohar for All, “The Rose“).
Question: Why does it say “from the end of the world to its end” and not from beginning to end?
Answer: In our perception, we are between the qualities of judgment and mercy, between two lines. Our whole world fits within the boundaries of these borderline forms.
And therefore, in this context, we cannot see the world from beginning to end. In each state, the world is limited by the boundaries of our Kli, which we are able to discern.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/10, The Book of Zohar “The Rose (Shoshanah)”
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There is nothing but love within the Creator. However, the Creator creates various conditions within the desire to receive that should help us understand what love is and attain love since it is something totally incomprehensible for us.
Love is something alien and unclear for our egoism, something that goes against our nature. How is it possible that when I taste different treats presented in front of me I would actually sense the host from their flavors? What is the connection between one and another?
This is the essence of the creation, “existence from nothing” and within this “nothing” there is something from the “existing.”
Therefore, from nothing, from the desire to receive pleasure, I can come to the existing one. This means that from the impression within the desire to receive pleasure I can reach love, the property that is completely detached in absolutely everything from the creation.
Suddenly, as a result of some actions and processes within the desire to receive pleasure a miracle happens and it reaches the property that belongs to the upper, divine nature.
It remains completely unclear for us how the actions “give-receive” lead to the birth of a miracle called love. Love does not have anything to do with the desire to receive pleasure whatsoever.
Every time and at any rung, we have to replenish our actions and impressions experienced in the desire to receive pleasure in order to collect them all and raise them for the attainment of the property of love.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/9/12, Talmud Eser Sefirot, Part15
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Concealment pertains to where one wants to see and understand but does not see or understand. At that time, we can say that something is hidden from him. Moreover, the measure of concealment is measured by the need to know. Hence, when a person has no need for knowledge, it cannot be said about that person that he is suffering from the concealment.
For example, if a person has to work somewhere only half an hour every day and receive his salary once a month, he must believe that he will be paid although he still did not see anyone being paid. Hence, he believes in the company although it is hidden from him whether or how the company will pay the salary, since no one knows this company where he wants to work.
If he wants to work more than half an hour, he has a greater need to know that the company pays the salary on time. Thus, if he heard bad rumors about the company, he suffers more from the concealment. And if he wants to work day and night, he certainly feels a greater concealment because he has a greater need to know whether he will receive his salary as promised.
Since the kingdom of heaven is above reason, everyone suffers from the concealment. However, for those who want to work for the sake of the Creator, the concealment is greater because they have a greater need to know, since the body keeps asking “What is this work for you?” It follows that this question is always understood according to how much a person wants to work completely for the sake of the Creator.
The answer to the question is “Blunt its teeth.”
(Rabash, “Revealing the Concealment”)
We must agree that we do not see the reward beforehand. On the contrary, as we move forward, we will see the opposite picture, that there is no reward and there never will be. And all this is in order to raise us above reason.
The less we know and understand and the less confidence and evidence we have, the more opportunities it gives us to build a support system above reason. Then this confidence will be revealed not in our egoistic desires, but only in bestowal, above reason, without proof, because “our heart will rejoice in the Creator.” Meaning, not in us, not in our egoism, but above in the Creator or in the group, in the connection within which we reveal the upper force.
Therefore, no one will see the pay in their hands. Anyone who does not agree can immediately leave and seek a reward in ordinary material life. In spiritual life, the reward consists in giving it up, in the importance of the one for whom I do the work.
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From the Preparation to the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/13
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Question: The entire reality is light and Kli, Creator and creation, the other and me. Why does The Zohar seem so complicated and confusing?
Answer: The Zohar seems complicated and confusing to us because we have not reached a unified picture. We have “me” and “the world,” my desires, my thoughts, and the forces operating in this entire reality, and the fulfillments in it seem distant from each other and shattered. Therefore, this force of shattering gives me an extremely complex, confusing picture. It is because I do not see all this in unity, and separation brings me confusion.
As much as we can see, but not in the mind because it will not help, rather in feelings, that is, in more corrected Kelim (desires), all these details of perception combined together: me, the other, the Creator, the study, the group, the environment, everything that exists, to the extent that I wish to link them together, these efforts will bring me light. The light will lead me to the contemplation of a more unified picture, and all the elements of the picture will gradually begin to connect.
From the connection of all these opposites, which become supportive and connected with each other, the entire wisdom comes.
The more distant and opposite all these details of the picture of reality used to be, which I now see connected together both supporting and complementing each other, the deeper I attain the thought of creation, the program of creation, and the process that we are going through.
From these opposites, I begin to live, to feel this amazing wisdom, to connect together the upper governance, to correlate it with one force.
All this is a result of the influence of light on my shattered desires and thoughts, when I want it to connect them together.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/11, The Book of Zohar — Introduction: “The Fourth Commandment”
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Question: Why does Rabash write that “one who follows the path of the Creator creates the Creator?”
Answer: Indeed, it sounds very strange that а man creates the Creator. But in fact, it is so both in the internal and external sense.
There are 3,800 different religions and beliefs in this world and they were all invented by people who in their fantasies, in their imagination, created a deity on which they depend.
All kinds of foretellers of the future and astrologers still appear in newspapers, on the radio, and on television. Obviously, these people create their own Creator, their own God, each nation according to its character and with all sorts of attributes.
This happens externally as well as internally, that is, in the science of Kabbalah. Only in accordance with the vessel can the higher power that has no form or image be given shape. If the shape of my vessel is somewhat similar to the highest abstract power, then I feel in it that I have fulfilled the law of equivalence of qualities and feel the qualities and essence of the Creator.
It turns out that I am creating the Creator myself because I am building a vessel in which it is possible to feel the quality of the upper, the property of Zeir Anpin in Malchut, according to their similarity, mergence, and correspondence.
In other words, I create the Creator myself, but not in the way I want as in external religions where each nation has created its own image of God or turned some person into an idol.
We create this image against our nature, which means it can never just appear in our imagination or desire. And secondly, we strive for equivalence of form, and only after having reached a certain similarity can we feel that we have created the image of the Creator within ourselves. That is why we are called man, Adam, meaning similar (Domeh) to the Creator.
The Creator (Bore) means come (Bo) and see (Re), but you need to enter inside your desires, your feelings. The Creator does not exist outside of my desire. I feel and reveal Him according to my understanding, perception, and ability to imagine in the desire created by Him.
I cannot talk about Him but only about what I can grasp and attribute to Him. In this, there is a huge difference. I correct my vessel until it resonates with the upper force, and then I grasp something inside my qualities that I envision to be the Creator.
But this image exists only in relation to me.
Therefore, the Creator is called come and see: come, change yourself to such an extent that you will be able to see. But what do you see? Your own corrected qualities that are similar to Him.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/21/13, Writings of Rabash “Shlavei HaSulam,” “Concerning Love of Friends“
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