Series of lessons on the topic: Rashbi - undefined

08 листопада 2009 - 08 серпня 2010

Lesson 2025 квіт 2010 р.

Zohar. Introduction to the Book of Zohar, “The Lock and the Key,” item 41

Lesson 20|25 квіт 2010 р.
In our world, the development of a small child takes place under the influence of the environment. The child automatically repeats the words and actions of adults, perceives reality as it is, and acquires new stages and skills. Upon growing up, the child ceases to develop in this way and moves on to a process of accumulating knowledge and filling the inner memory cells that were formed during childhood. Our spiritual development happens in exactly the same way: a person advances without knowing their next state at all. Like children, we pass from one degree to the next without any idea of what awaits us. As we develop new sensations within, we build a Kli, the filling of which leads to the revelation and understanding of the next degree. This development is expressed in descents and ascents, in the alternation of states of faith and states of knowledge. In order to acquire a different nature, the one that is not originally embedded within us, we completely place ourselves under the influence of the upper Partzuf, annul all our desires, and come under the rule of Bina, which shapes us into a new spiritual substance - similarity to the Creator. The complete acquisition of the quality of bestowal means that we have attained the form of a “key,” which allows us to enter into interaction with the “lock” (the upper Partzuf, the Creator) and begin working with the light of Hochma, correcting reception into bestowal. In the spiritual world, there is no division into multiple separate actions. By turning the “key” in the “lock,” we simultaneously interact with the upper Partzuf, acquire its qualities, correct ourselves, and adhere to it.