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Science and Kabbalah is a vast and complex topic. It is difficult to cover this complex subject fully. I have been engaged in science and Kabbalah for many years, but only in recent years have I discovered their points of intersection. The region of contact between them began to emerge 70 to 80 years ago, when scientists who were studying atomic particles discovered their dual nature: sometimes we see them as particles of matter and sometimes as waves. It depends completely on us (i.e., on the researcher using some device) as to how they are perceived, analyzed, and studied. Questions began to arise: do waves and all matter around us have a certain form, or is this matter "the way we perceive it?" This dilemma struck scientists: what is our world really like? Indeed, if we use other devices, we will perceive not matter, but waves and some types of plasma or energy |
The wisdom of Kabbalah is the most ancient of all wisdoms. It goes back to the times of Abraham, the Patriarch - which is 18th century, BC. - 3,800 years ago. Abraham the Patriarch, who was just like anyone else in Babylon, Uhr Kasdeem. He was a Bedouin tribesman, who discovered Godliness, something outside of this world, and wrote a book about it, called “Sefer Yetzira” (The book of Creation), which is actually the first book on the Wisdom of Kabbalah. |
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In the article "The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah" Baal HaSulam writes: "... a sequence of roots, evolving by way of cause and effect according to absolute and predertermined laws, connecting and aiming towards one very prominent goal, which is named the revelation of His divinity to His creatures in this world." It means that we are here in this world and there are upper roots that evolve down to this world, to us. We, in this world, can reveal this root that reaches us, and from it begin to elevate in order to attain divinity. It means that this wisdom is not merely a theoretical or abstract teaching. Rather, it is the means, the tool to climb the ladder of steps, of attainments until reaching the revelation of divinity. |
"Meaning that the branches indicate to their roots, being their molds that necessarily exist in the upper world. This is because there is no reality in the lower world that is not elicited from its superior. As with the seal and the imprint, the root in the upper world compels its branch in the lower one to reveal its entire form and feature, as our sages said that the fortune in the world above, related to the grass in the world below, strikes it, forcing it to complete its growth. Because of that, each and every branch in this world, well defines its mold, situated in the higher world." |
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Question: What is the connection between this abstract and what is beneficial for me? How will it make me feel any better? Does this "abstract thing" up above even care... ? |
As you know, the main book of Kabbalah is the book of “Zohar”. There has never been any book like it and there never will be. It is truly a unique book in its depth and in the way it comprises the entire creation and explains it. There is no other book like it. But the problem is, as we know, that humanity develops in its desire to receive from the small desire to receive, that existed in previous generations, to a greater desire to receive, and accordingly, in every period there are Kabbalists that bring us the wisdom of Kabbalah in a different manner, through different interpretations. |
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“And accordingly we need to ask why He created the worlds restriction after restriction down to this opaque world and garbed the souls in the opaque bodies of this world.” (Baal HaSulam, Introduction to Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah) Meaning that if the Creator created the World of Infinity, in which there is a created being, filled with light. We do not sense this state that exists, but we will feel it sometime. As we follow the scheme of the descent of the entire state through the worlds from its highest point, until it reaches this world which is the lowest and worst, we ask why it is that here we feel that we are without even a moment in which we feel happy and full. How can it be that He is whole, and He did such a terrible thing? How is it possible that we are suffering and He wants to benefit us? |
What is the reason for our inability to change the 365 desires of which the soul is comprised? Because they cannot be integrated with the attributes of the Creator. A man is a will to receive pleasure and delight. The Creator is a will to bestow. A person receives from the Creator, and the Creator gives everything.
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