The Last Drop That Turns on the Light
Question: You say that The
Zohar is the system of ties between us. How are these connections
expressed in The Zohar: in the shape of the letters or the meanings
behind the words?
Dr. Laitman's Answer: You won't find the symbols of these
connections in letters or words, and even without them. We should view The
Zohar as a connecting device and nothing more. I don't know how it works.
All I know is that if my desires are correct and I am reading The Zohar with the hope that these desires will be fulfilled, it will occur.
I have a certain device that I adjust and
plug into electricity, but the one last drop is missing: a little bit more of
my thought and desire for it to occur, for the device to start channeling
electricity and begin to work.
I should be anticipating it, nothing more. It
is regarded as "awaiting salvation." But we must, to the best of our ability,
prepare our desires and needs so that they are fit for correction as much as
possible. After all, an unripe desire doesn't merit correction. Desire the time
of which has passed and a new desire needs to be used or the same desire but at
a higher degree won't merit correction either.
Everything has to occur with the utmost
precision, and then the Light that
Reforms comes and performs our merging with the Creator. This is what our work
entails.
From the 2nd part
of the Daily
Kabbalah Lesson 05/09/11, The Zohar
Revealing One Measure While Concealing Two
Question: Throughout all of history,
Kabbalists passed the science of Kabbalah from one generation to the next. But
on the other hand, they created a special concealment over this science to make
sure it wouldn't expand all over the whole world. Why?
Dr.
Laitman's Answer: Kabbalists reveal their
attainments in concealment. That's why it is written, "When revealing one
measure, conceal two." This is talking about the revelation of the necessary
desire in a person, in which he will then feel the upper world.
Our nature
is desire, and only if this desire is present do we perceive the world inside
of it. The greater the desire, the more it perceives. All the objects in our
world differ from one another only by the size of the desire. The desire of
level 1 is still, level 2 - vegetative, level 3 - animate, and level 4 - human.
If the desire intends to enjoy by itself, then it is in our world. If it
intends to give pleasure to someone else, then it is in the upper world.
It's known
that pleasure can only be felt to the extent that one has a desire for it. In
other words, the Light can only be received when there is a vessel.
Concealing
two measures means that a Kabbalist teacher must create a concealment in a student-the
desire of one measure, the need for revelation, and the concealment of one more
measure so this desire for revelation would be for the sake of bestowal. In
that case, the student will merit revelation inside of that corrected desire.
From the 2nd part
of the Daily
Kabbalah Lesson 05/09/11, The Zohar
Kabbalah International
