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We know nothing about the Creator, except His
will to create us and to give us the enjoyment. Upon His device,
desire of enjoyment arose from nothing.
The Creator's will of creation is called "Keter" (crown), since it
surrounds like a crown his will to give us the enjoyment.
The creation of the keter may be imagined as a vessel (kli) ready to
get the enjoyment, or the Creator's light (ohr). This point of the
creation is called Hochmah (wisdom) and the enjoyment filling the
kli is called "ohr Chochma" (light of wisdom).
Since the desire of the enjoyment is the only human's desire, the
Creator directs us using it. in many countries in hot summer days we
hear water-melon sellers driving cars or modest barrows and calling
for buyers. Why these men work so hardly under the burning sun? The
Creator gave them desire to bring enjoyment to their families, but
thus they bring the enjoyment also to the others while selling juicy
quenching fruit. Thus the light gives to the creature not only the
enjoyment itself but also the ability to give the enjoyment to the
others. But the creature (kli) refuses to have this ability. The
enjoyment from voluntary deny to receive (get) the light is called
"ohr Chassadim". This stage of the development of the creature is
named "Binah".
But the life is impossible without the light (orh of Chochma). And
the new form of the creature (Binah) begins to receive some minimal
portion of the light and hence is transformed into a new kind called
ze'eir anpin. Further development of the creature brings a new
desire to enjoy the light, and it beoomes a new object - malchut
(kingdom, it means kingdom of desire).
Hence there are the following stages of the creation and of the
development of the creature (kli):
l. KETER. The Creator's will to create kli and to bring it the
enjoyment.
2. CHOCHMAH. Desire of enjoyment arisen from the light.
3. BINAH. enjoyment not from the light but from its returning to the
Creator.
4. ZE`ElR ANPIN (Z"A). Receiving some portion of ohr Chochma
necessary for normal life.
5. MALCHUT. Feeling the importance of or Chochma, Z"A tries to
become full of this light and thus turns into malchut. it's malchut
being the only real kli (creature) because it desires ltself to
receive the entire enjoyment from the Creator. The previous forms
are not real kli, but onIy stages of its development. The Creator's
will is to create thle kli would like ltself to enjoy His light.
Malchut full of the light is called "olam Ein Sof" - the world of
Without End. The movement is change of desires giving birth to near
creatures (kli). The time is a chain from the cause (the primary
desire) to the effect (the secondary desire). "The world of Without
End" means a vessel full of enjoyment without any limit, i.e.
unsatisfied desire. This is the condition of kli malchut. Therefore,
from the Creator's point of view, malchut is the completion of the
program of Creation.
The aim of the Creation is to create a new thing the creature and to
fill it with lmmense absolute enjoyment. Thus the Creator gave to
the creature a great desire to receive the enjoyment.
"The desire to receive" ratzon lekabel (R"K) may be lmagined as a
vessel (kli) having capacity proportional to the capacity of the
desire, and the enjoyment received - to the quantity of the light
filling the vessel. The light coming from the Creator had existed as
early as before the Creation. This light is an lntegral nature of
the Creator. As for the desire to receive the enjoyment, the Creator
himself hasn't it, but gives it to the creatures. All the worlds are
nothing but different forms demonstrating the desire to receive and
to enjoy the Creator's light.
All of us being parts of kli-malchut desire to receive food, warmth
and other enjoyments as little portions of the light in our world.
All of us are perfect from the Creator's point of view, but we must
go through a long way of lmprovement in order to feel the spiritual
worlds.
Each creature has the only desire - to enjoy. Thus giving a program
to a man, changing necessaries during his life, the Creator evokes
certain actions; but it seems to the man as lf he acts himself, upon
his will and choice. When the man realizes the dependence of his
behaviour on desires of his body and begins to struggle against his
body, he may get free of the desires of the body and to pass to the
spiritual world, to live in accordance with the necessaries of his
soul. The enjoyment is the result of filling the kli by the light.
There is only a littIe sparkle of spiritual light in our world. This
sparkle named ner dakik may be found in different things, and that's
why these things attract us by enjoyments concealed there.
Possibility of enjoyment or of release of suffering That's the only
motive power for all our thoughts and emotions. We can't either
think or act differently due to our egoistic nature. As for
spiritual worlds, they consist of altruistic klis able to act
despite their nature. lf a man realizes his own egoism as an evil
bringing him nothing but suffering, he may ask the Creator to change
his nature, l.e. to give him a power to be actually free.
All the desires o f the creatures are in fact the only one - the
desire for the light. The Creator rules us while ruling our desires.
Realizing a lack of something, the Creater forces us to act and to
strive for things lacking in our life. it's said that "the love and
the hunger govern the world". It means that all the human's actions
are forced (determined). if the Creator shouldn't give the mother
enjoyment of suckling, the babies would starve. Nobody should move
from his place, if not to seek for better conditions. The evolution,
the progress, the spiritual search all of this reflects our
inclination to find satisfaction of our desires.
As for the desires themselves, they are given us by the Creator upon
the program of our development having its aim to leave us the
absolute enjoyment. The kabbalah is necessary for the mankind,
because it deals with the aim and the plan of the Creation, with
human recompense for rescue of egoism. Two powers of human
development force the man to seek for the aim - the suffering of the
moment and the enjoyment expected in future.These two forces are
like two locomotives pulling a heavily loaded train: the first ahead
of the train, and the second one - from behind it. Upon the
Creator's will, the mankind will finally come to the condition of
the absolute improvement, it means will develop from egoism to
altruism. And Kabbalah helps each of us to find our own way to this
condition.
Author: Rav Michael Laitman, PhD |
