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General Overview of Creation. Lesson 4

June 3, 2005

Today we will be talking about the result of the breaking of the vessels and world of Tikkun (Correction)...

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Today we will be talking about the result of the breaking of the vessels and world of Tikkun (Correction).

Ultimately, in order to correct the creature and bring it to an equivalence of form with the Creator, we need to add the attributes of bestowal within Malchut.

Malchut knows only one thing – to receive and to enjoy. If it acquires an understanding of what is bestowal, it will be able to build above itself the Masach, meaning the intention, so that its reception would also be in order to give to the Creator.

This act is called "receiving in order to bestow". That is all you need and that is all you can have because the creature is only a receiver – it cannot give. It can desire to induce pleasure to someone by receiving.

In our world, we are able to give because we are in the body. In the external form, I take something and give it to someone. We call it giving—in its external form.

But if we are talking about our inner Kli, about what we are inside, without being clothed into a body, just a soul – a soul knows only how to receive. Our body misleads us as though we are capable of giving. It tells us “Take it!” Why am I doing this? – Because inside of myself, in my soul I know that it will please me...

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