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By realizing that we can bring nothing to the table other than a desire to be one with the Creator, and when you think about it, why not!
I was watching the video with RavLaitman about the four states in the Related section of Week 4, and the question was raised, “why four states and not two?” This is because we are looking at a binary system. If the will to bestow = 1 and the will to receive = 0, then mathematically you will have four separate combinations or permutations: 1 1, 1 0, 0 1, and 0 0.
I was contemplating the other day about how Adam was the first Kabbalist and discovered the laws of nature as the Creator being the will to bestow and the creature the will to receive. How did he come to this understanding? Then I realized all he needed to do was look at a tree. The tree receives light from the sun, mixes it with air, water,and nutrients from the earth, and thrives. The sun, like the Creator, shines it’s light on the whole world, and whosoever wants to receive it does. The sun is self contained and needs nothing from outside itself to radiate light, just as the Creator has need of nothing. The tree receives the light shed on it and can give nothing back to the sun that it would need or want other than praise. Isaiah 55:12 ..and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Let me see if I am understanding the screen: I need to turn my desires from pleasing myself, to pleasing the Creator, or in other words excepting the answer of my desires because it will please the Creator? Are we talking corporal desires, spiritual or both? Is this the act of being grateful or something else? Thanks!
My desire for my fellow students is to no longer have our separate desires, but have one common desire to know the Creator in all of His fullness. We can build this common desire by wanting it and asking for the Creator’s help to bring it to pass.
