Everything that is created in our world is created with the Thought of its Creator. When a person is thinking about the Thought of the Creator, not only try to think what it is, but to understand and to attain the qualities of the Creator. When such a meeting of minds happens, such a unity creates for us a gateway to return to the Light of the Creator. Because the Creator’s Thoughts went into the creation of this world, by thinking about this process, we reach Dvekut (adhesion) with the Creator.
|-Introduction to Ten Luminous Emanations
- This is the lifetime work that we all need to do – ask ourselves, “In what areas in my life do I have a distorted or fragmented consciousness?”
“The end of chaos is already here. Why doesn’t it show itself? We need to earn being able to see it. Rav Avraham Azulai says all that is missing is for us to learn to get along with each other. It’s easy to say. Hard to put into action. …But Messiach – that perfect world – it is already here. We need to ask Rabbi Shimon [author of the Zohar] to help us see.”
- Rav Berg, during a study with teachers on Lag B’Omer in 2013
“When men in prayer declare the Unity of the Holy Name in love and reverence, the walls of earth’s darkness are cleft in twain, and the Face of the Heavenly King is revealed, lighting up the universe.”
|-ZOHAR (The Book of Splendor)
Our sages said, “There is not a blade of grass below that does not have an angel above that strikes it and tells it, ‘Grow!’” This seems very perplexing, for why would the Creator trouble an angel from Above with striking and nursing a tiny, insignificant blade of grass?
Yet, this saying is of one of Creation’s secrets that are too long to interpret. This is so because the heart of the infinitely wise wishes to reveal a portion and conceal two portions with their golden allegories, as they are wary of revealing the Torah to an unworthy disciple. It is for this reason that our sages said that one does not learn from legends, as legends are sealed and blocked before the masses, and are revealed only to a chosen few in a generation.
And we also find in The Book of Zohar, that Rashbi (Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yochai) instructed Rabbi Aba to write the secrets, because he knew how to reveal with intimation. See in the Idra, where it is written that for each secret that Rashbi disclosed in the wisdom, he would cry and say, “Woe if I tell; woe if I do not tell. If I do not tell, my friends will lose that word; and if I tell, the wicked will know how to serve their Master.”
This means that he was in distress from both angles: if he did not reveal the secrets of the Torah, the secrets would be lost from the true sages, who fear God. And if he did reveal the secrets, people of no merit would fail in them, for they would not understand the root of the matters and would eat unripe fruit.
Hence, Rashbi chose Rabbi Aba to write, because of his wisdom in allegories, to arrange things in such a way that it would be sufficiently revealed to those who are worthy of understanding them, and hidden and blocked from those unworthy of understanding them. This is why he said that Rabbi Aba knew how to reveal with intimation. In other words, although he revealed, it still remains a secret to the unworthy.
However, in The Zohar, they promised us that this wisdom is destined to be completely revealed at the end of days, even for little ones. And they also said that with this composition, the children of Israel would be redeemed from exile, meaning that with the appearance of the wisdom of truth, Israel will be rewarded with complete redemption.
And we also see that the words of The Zohar and the hidden secrets in the wisdom of truth are being gradually revealed, generation by generation, until we are rewarded with revealing all this wisdom, and at that time we will be rewarded with complete redemption.
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|~Rav Yehuda Ashlag, General Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah (1)
See also – DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCE