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That you can’t force a person to engage in spiritual matters if they have no desire for spirituality. You need to meet them where they are.
It’s best to take Baal HaSulam’s definitions as-is. Here’s how he defines Surrounding Light:
Ohr Makif: Any Light that is repelled from reception in the Sof of the Partzuf, due to the weakness of the Masach. It surrounds the Partsuf and pressures the Masach in order to be clothed within it in the future.
There’s an episode on physics but we don’t talk about entropy. We can boil it down simply and say that everything we see is a result of the Shattering of the soul of Adam HaRishon. After that, you just have offshoots of this action, which are all the laws of physics. If you want to relate it to the idea of entropy, we can say that what happens to this broken soul is that it’s brokenness gets increasingly revealed. That’s why you have such laws. Detail it as much as you want, but that’s all that’s happening. And there’s nothing to do in the universe besides connect the hearts of people, because all the other inanimate, vegetative, animate parts of reality appear in brokenness because of the brokenness of the connection between the hearts of people. In that shattering, all the distances within the universe are depicted. It’s true, that because this depends on free choice on the part of people, and no other action depends on their free choice, the laws of physics can’t take this free choice into account, nor can they account for the help of the Upper Force that comes in when people exercise this free choice, and therefore it looks like the inevitable state of the system over time is disarray. That’s only because the system is designed to show us more and more our broken state, till we can’t ignore it and can’t tolerate it, and will demand a correction.
I want to help those around me, but the Creator is already giving them exactly what they need and doesn’t need my help with that. That’s the problem. He needs help, just not with that. But I myself want to help Him with specifically that. So, we have a problem. I want to bestow to Him in an area that He “has it covered” already.
What He needs is for me to correct myself. That’s the rock that even the Creator can’t lift.
Me, by myself, He feels toward that “me” the way I feel toward, say, a single cell within my precious baby son. The cell isn’t important, but the collection is more important than anything in the world. The cell itself, if it feels itself alone, is a cancer cell; while the healthy cell doesn’t feel himself alone, but part of the whole. In the whole, it feels it’s life and existence. We’re like cancer cells and thus we don’t enjoy our existence, nor does the Creator. And that “I” isn’t the true me either, nor does it have any eternity to it. The true me is in my incorporation in the whole reality. That’s where I truly express what’s unique in the root of my soul, and where I discover the Creator’s love for “me”.
You heard that Kabbalah is about connection, because by connection with others we reveal the spiritual world. What you didn’t hear is that there is – like in math or the periodic table of elements – an order to this connection. You will not be able to connect first with someone who is not next in the sequence. By this I mean, the first point of contact for this connection is only with others who have the Point in the Heart, which is the inclination for specifically Kabbalah (because Kabbalah is what a person is irresistibly drawn to when they want to attain the purpose of life). Only among those who have such an inclination do I have a fixed backdrop against which I can start to work toward spiritual connection.
If I want to work this way toward my family, my co-workers – I can try, but for sure it won’t work. The laws of those connections and what will work and be beneficial for me are on a different level, the level of regular psychology, how to buy people, charm them, and so on.
