Where are they? In some location within the realm of space and time? They made their appearance here in this world, dressed in a body and now there’s no need for a body in this world. You can’t say their “souls” have gone somewhere, though. You can consider what they did for us as a kind of system that they left for us to enter into and there you will feel them as guides along the journey.

Chris

Hi Todd,

The created being and the Creator are two opposites, but the created being has its root in the Creator. The will to receive and the will to bestow are two opposite forces, yet the will to receive is within, the Creator Himself and ultimately (the end of correction), both will return to, “He and His name are one.”.

Thanks!

Chris

Hey Todd,

There are a few that we study. You’ll see mainly The Tree of Life & Bet Shar Kavanot.

It’s not that they were “released” to the public like something that was hidden and then disclosed, but in his time, even though he died very young, he was still considered the prominent teacher and so whatever he wrote was taken and studied.

Thanks!

Hey Jurgis,

Our teacher would often begin lessons with, “There are two forces in reality – the force of reception and the force of bestowal…” and then continue to expand. There’s a lot to this approach as it sets you back to the initial action in creation, where it began, and with what. It’s always good to “zero” out sometimes since we often get lost in our own confusion.

So, if the Creator created the will to receive, then this is what we are, this is our root. “We”, as you asked, already implies there are “multiple” instances of this will to receive that the Creator created but we know, “He and His name are one” meaning, one Creator and one creature.

What He created was the will to receive or the “desire” to receive pleasure. This is our nature, this is our root. What we are is desire to receive, just like anything and everything else in creation that is not the Creator – the will to bestow.

What makes us similar to the Creator as this is the purpose of creation, is inverting the use of this will to receive to be like the quality of the Creator which is bestowing to His creatures. We “receive” in order to bestow. We have no other option, no other “material” to use besides what we have as our WTR, our desire – but how we use it is what the wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us which is to use it for the sake of the Creator instead of ourselves.

Thanks!

Chris

Hey Todd,

Everything is always ’10’ – no more and no less. The “changing’ factor has to do with the will to receive and how much is being used in order to bestow. This is equivalent to the light that is revealed. The “ratio” of the will to receive and the screen – Masach – which is the rejecting force that forbids only the amount of pleasure to enter that can be received in order to bestow is what’s at play. These “combinations” are certainly a different type of connection between the 10 Sefirot.

Thanks!

Chris

Hi Todd,

The will to bestow cannot exist without its counterpart – the will to receive. It’s why Kabbalists write, “there is no light without a vessel.” or “there’s no Creator without a created being.” The two forces are opposite but also one – None Else Besides Him. That said, you can’t say that the will to receive is also the will to bestow, they are two separate things.

Thanks!

Chris