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How can the “I” (clothed light) be autonomous? If everything is One Light “clothed” then the individual, independent nature of The “I” is illusory and isn’t this teaching a reification and (perhaps even deification) of an illusion?
The focus on “self” in Kabala seems confused. There’s lot’s of talk about the construction of so-called reality and it’s illusory nature. There’s also much discussion in Kabala of the unified nature of The All / The Light and it’s “clothing” which forms reality. Yet, all of this presupposes an observing “self” which is of necessity distinct. Thus, there is an inherent contradiction. If so called reality is unified, i.e. One then how can it be observed?  And, while the experience of a “self” certainly seems to be real, when one is sought, it cannot be found and it “appears” that there really is no self but rather the illusion of one based on memory and neurology.  So, is reality unified or is it dual? And, is Kabala’s focus on self a reification of this illusion? Or, is it merely an issue of languaging and convenience?
