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That would be interesting. However I don’t know if we’ll be given such an opportunity. The problem with drawing is that then a student clings to the drawing. We do it a bit, so students won’t be totally lost. But actually a person needs to feel the lack of clarity so that they will search for the correct internal depiction of these things. Since we lack the feeling of them we natural hold tightly to any external drawing that can make them tangible because it’s harder to struggle to locate them within.
Why doesn’t Kabbalah deal with the Creator? Here there’s only a problem with conveyance of understanding through language. In every place where “Creator” is written, or any name referring to the Upper Force, Kabbalists don’t mean the Creator Himself, called Atzmuto (His Essence). That’s because in the same way physicists would regard anyone philosophizing about prior to the Big Bang as a mere philosopher, so Kabbalists don’t take seriously anyone speculating about the Creator Himself. Physicists draw conclusions – even about “billions of years ago” only from what either people or their instruments can gather hard evidence of. Kabbalists only write about that which they attain as solidly as the computer screen in front of you. Physicists “know” that probably there must be something prior to the Big Bang. Such a force that creates a whole world couldn’t come from nothing. But we don’t attain it. But we understand that that we don’t attain. Kabbalists too first of all attain a spiritual degree. Even this first degree is already seemingly all inclusive, the Creator, the loving force that includes all of reality, creates it, beyond which there is nothing, and we – because in the true spiritual reality objects are separated only by lack of equivalence of form – we merge with the Creator due to equivalence of form with Him. This first degree is as the Final Correction beyond which no greater perfection can be. More than one has vessels to even fantasize about in his wildest philosophical dreams.
And then… it becomes revealed that, no, there is here something more, something I don’t attain, a higher degree that exists. And toward the degree that I’m on now, it is called Creator. Thus, Kabbalists write, “every ‘day’ I have a new Creator.” Kabbalists only write about what they attain in their vessels and not what seems might be beyond their vessels, as from going through this process they learn that speculation about that part that lies beyond is actually not serious.
Yes, it’s that all that is in the world is in me and only me. I have to correct it all. How? The Creator must help.
5 Partzufim per world x 5 Sefirot per Parzuf x 5 worlds = 125 degrees. Of course, there are many ways to divide things as we are talking about worlds here. As in our world, you can divide things in myriad ways to describe it.
You will always have strength to overcome the pleasure, if you rely on the group. You need to build your group up to the height/greatness of the Creator. That’s your work. The Creator’s work is to add more and more desire/aviut to you, to overcome, until you can overcome even spiritual pleasures. You will have to raise a group that looks like the importance of dust to you to the skies, every time. This is the mechanism of the spiritual work and how all the pleasures of Creation are first overcome and later received in order to bestow.
