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How should I understand the distinction between the Creator and the creature if, fundamentally, it sounds like we are one? Is there a kind of non-dualism that can be helpful to embrace when thinking on these matters?
Hi Michael,
We’re aspiring to unite with the Creator, we’re not there yet. If we have not yet attained this connection in practice, we cannot just take this concept as some maxim and live by it.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/10/if-i-am-not-for-myself-then-no-one-will-help-me/
The Creator is the force of love and bestowal. It’s the singular force behind all of reality. This force created us and is operating every moment to develop us until we reach the best possible state in life: adhesion with Him.
The creature is everything outside the Creator, meaning if the Creator is the force of bestowal, the creature is the desire to receive pleasure. This desire is ingrained within all of us, including the still, vegetative, and animate levels of nature. Essentially all of our reality is composed of varying degrees of this desire to receive pleasure.
Furthermore, when we speak about the Creator, we speak about how we feel this thing called the Creator within our corrected desires.
In general, Kabbalah divides our research of the Creator into two parts:
The first is His essence (atzmuto in Hebrew). This is He Himself, His point of view, the Creator as an entity separate from the Created beings. We’re incapable of researching this part of the Creator because our research tools are not built in such a way that we can grasp such things. Perhaps after we finish the process of correction, we’ll discover additional research tools through which we’ll be able to research these things, but until then we limit ourselves and don’t talk about this part of the Creator because we cannot properly research it.
The other part of the Creator is called Bo-Re (Hebrew for Come (Bo) and See (Re)). This is the part of the Creator that we can research and reveal. How do we research this? Through the desire. When we take a part of our desire to receive and correct it in the direction of bestowal, in that corrected desire, we reveal a certain phenomenon, we call this phenomenon the Creator. This is why there are many names for the Creator (in Hebrew), since every time we correct a different part of the desire, we reveal a different aspect of this thing called the Creator.
So all of our understanding of this thing called the Creator is based on what we reveal within the corrected desire. But whatever exists outside of the corrected desire, whatever we don’t grasp, perceive or attain within the desire, whatever is beyond our tools of research, we don’t talk about. We need to keep these limits in mind in order to stay within the realm of science and not venture off into religion or philosophy.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/11/the-concept-of-god-in-kabbalah/
Albert @ KabU
Hi! Hope everyone’s perception today is glorious.. In regards to “Isreal” being those persons who the point in heart is turned on and are desiring equivalence of form with the Creator- is this dynamic number or persons? Persons who were all at Mt Sinai for revelation of the Torah but who have further been split into various humans so we only have to correct a small fraction? Of the collective soul of Adam Harishon?
Hi Naomi,
Yes, it’s a dynamic number of people. And yes each one has to correct their part in the collective soul.
All of humanity is part of a single system, like cells within a single body. Within this singular system, there is a certain order of corrections that need to take place. It’s like building a large jigsaw puzzle. First you start with all the corner pieces, and only then do you gradually work your way to the center.
It’s the same with our spiritual work. There are those that are awakened to this work earlier and those that are awakened to it later. Those that received awakened points in the hearts are like those corner pieces of the puzzle that need to start the whole process. Later on, due to their good work, they pave the way for the rest of the world to join this process.
So ultimately, whether a person receives a point in the heart now or later depends on their place in the system, which is called the root of one’s soul.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/10/the-root-of-the-soul/
Albert @ KabU
When it is said that a correction in my heart is a correction in everybody’s heart, does that mean that everybody, each individually feels the correction, or rather, that I see the correction or feel the correction in them through my own perception? Hope that question makes sense.
Ok I think I understand. Thank you and now I have another? related to Tony’s second video in week 3.
so for those of us whose point in heart was received and turned on. Does the newish realization that all my “mitzvahs” ie) good deeds that were done in the past where in a way useless? As I was doing them for “receiving something in return”? And now I make less time but am more I’m more intentional in the mitzvahs I do. For example I made challah every Friday after I moved to Portugal bc that was only way I could have challah for Shabbat. But I was so exhausted and stressed out about the rising etc that by the time for lighting the candles- I was pretty depleted. So I’ve recently had an opportunity to order challah for Fridays and instead of feeling guilty that I didn’t make them myself- I realize that my previous intention was incorrect (fear that my kids wouldn’t have a weekly connection) and instead I get to enjoy the day more and be more present with my family. This also happened to me regarding my morning prayer routine. I realized most of it was said from a fear based intent and now I spend more time in nature or with my loved ones in the mornings. So Tony’s video really connected with me in my stage of spiritual development- I think ?
Hi Naomi,
Nothing is in vain, everything in the past was necessary for our current level of development.
It’s just like how we educate kids. As an adult, you can look at a child and wonder why he is playing with a fake car, seems like it’s done in vain. But in truth, the toy car is exactly what is best for his development, and if he played with a real car, it could actually cause him a lot of harm.
Same with us. Everything we went through in the past was exactly what was needed for our level of development. And now that we’ve grown up, we are given different tools for our development. Once we develop even further, we’ll discover more refined means for our development as well.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Chris,
It means that I correct my part that is found within everyone else. It’s like a hologram where the big image is made up of identical smaller copies of that image. So if there is a flaw in one of the smaller images, that same flaw is found in every piece. And if you correct that flaw in the small piece, it’s reflected in the whole image.
So reaching my personal correction means that I have corrected my flaw that is found in everyone. And when each one will correct their part of the general picture, then we reach the final correction of the whole world.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/04/the-fractality-of-nature/
Albert @ KabU
May I ask, when we say Nature is adhered to the creator is it just that I live in a box that is limited by perception and what I see as the food chain and apex predators is because of my misperception and lack of seeing the world how it truly is at the level of roots and perhaps my programming from seeing this world in this way from our education. In reality at the level where intention is everything the animals are perfectly aligned? Thank you for any guidance you may share.
Hi Liz,
Yes, you can say that. Essentially nature is in perfect balance. It’s the uncorrected human ego within nature that ultimately causes all the destruction and throws off the balance in nature.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2013/08/wolves-help-grizzly-bears-and-us/
https://laitman.com/2016/03/the-whole-world-is-a-single-system/
https://laitman.com/2016/01/chernobyl-is-flourishing/
Albert @ KabU
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