The most powerful thing that we can do as human beings is to turn what seems like the cause of such terrible pains into a source of good and happiness, or to transform what appears to be chaos and woe into order and blessings. And so, it is here, [in the moments of pressure], the Messiah reveals to us such a high level of consciousness, that we overcome the physical limitations of the body and can rejuvenate or renew the body, all the way up to the point of immortality. Whenever I can identify those moments of pressure, I can then see my destiny as the results of my free will choices. If, however, I should fail to see the beauty in those moments, I will be more likely to make the wrong decisions [and hence need to repeat making the choice].
DISPELL ILLUSIONS
Why is chaos, from a Kabbalistic perspective, said to be illusionary? Because everything that is not eternal is illusionary. Anything that is not eternal lacks substance and, therefore, is not real. Because these elements are illusionary, we have chaos in our lives. All chaos, including death, ceased to exist at Revelation. Although immortality has become almost a reality at the present time, for many millennia, death was an absolute reality. Because the Zohar has defined Revelation as the removal of mortality, understand that death is illusionary.
With the removal of the illusionary corporeal realm of existence, the impediments cease to exist. At the time of Revelation, the idea of *the speed of light has no reference. Movement is instantaneous, once we consciously decide where we want to be. This idea can be verified by merely inserting into our consciousness the idea that, for instance, we would like to be at a place where we have spent a vacation. Being there becomes, in our minds, an instant reality. Space, as we know it, has no lace once our illusionary, physical realm disappears. Time ceases to exist. Past, future, and present become one.
|-HaRav Berg, Introduction to The Zohar
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