🧭 THE WHEEL OF TRANSFORMATION OF THE FORM 🧭

Rabbi Akiva tells us about that, “All is in deposit.” This means that everything that God had placed in Creation and given to people, He did not give to them licentiously, but secured Himself with collateral. And should you wonder what collateral He was given?

He responds to that by saying: “and a fortress spreads over all of life.” This means that the Creator has cleverly devised a wonderful fortress and spread it over all of humanity, so no one will escape. All the living must be caught in that fortress and necessarily accept His work, until they attain their sublime goal. This is the collateral by which the Creator secured Himself, to guarantee that no harm would come to the deed of Creation.

Afterward, he interprets it in detail and says, “The store is open.” This means that this world seems to us like an open shop, without an owner, and anyone who passes through may receive abundantly, as much as one wishes, free of any charge. However, Rabbi Akiva warns us that the shopkeeper is selling by deferred payment. In other words, although you cannot see any shopkeeper here, know that there is a shopkeeper, and the reason that he is not demanding payment is because he sells it to you by deferred payment.

And should you say, “How does he know my debt?” To that he replies, “The book is open and the hand writes.” Meaning there is a general book in which each act is written without losing even one. And the aim surrounds the law of development that the Creator has imprinted in humanity, which prompts us ever forward.

This means that the corrupt conducts in the states of humanity are the very ones that generate the good states. And each good state is nothing but the fruit of the work in the bad state that preceded it. Indeed, these values of good and bad do not refer to the value of the state itself, but to the general purpose: each state that brings humanity closer to the goal is considered good, and one that deflects them from the goal is considered bad.

| -Rav Yehuda Ashlag – “The Peace:” ‘An empirical, scientific research about the necessity of the work of God’

THE ZOHAR – PROLOGUE

Rabbi Shimon opened the discussion by saying, “In the beginning Elohim created” (Beresheet 1:1). This verse has to be examined carefully, because whoever claims that there is another El shall be wiped from the world. As it is already written, “Thus shall you say to them: The Elohim who have not made the heavens and the earth, they shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens” (Yirmeyah 10:11), because there is no other Creator besides the Holy One, blessed be He, alone!