As children, we all ask questions

that relate to the meaning of life,

to the connection with the Creator.

These are the most natural questions that one asks oneself.

But then we stifle them within us

and live like robots.
 

There Is None Else Besides Him

Imagine being a newborn baby,

your first sensation

that someone is caring for you.

A feeling that there is someone huge,

who shows his warm, caring, and benevolent feelings toward you.

You cannot understand him yet,

but you know that he takes care of you,

does everything that is good for you,

and you are completely under his control.

Thus, gradually,

people will come to feel

the caring and overseeing influence

of the Upper Force,

the only force in the world.

The Creator—Come and See

Various religions depict the Creator as something outside of us. But Kabbalah explains that it is forbidden to imagine the Creator as an image of any kind, that the Creator is a quality that exists within each of us.

The Creator is the quality of love and bestowal. The meaning of the word “Creator” (Borre in Hebrew) is “Come and See” (Bo u Re’e), meaning come and discover this quality within you.

There is no external, foreign element for whom we work! We work on correcting ourselves, on attaining the qualities of love and giving, the Creator.

Around two thousand years ago, we lost the feeling of the Creator—we were exiled and lost the true picture of the world. We began to think that the Creator was someone who existed separately from us, rather than a quality that appeared within us.

Instead of depicting the Creator as the primary and foremost quality of Creation, which clothes within us, we began to think of Him as a separate and foreign entity.

Focus on the Creator

The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches a person

how to turn oneself from within

and find the Creator.

It is like searching for an object through a lens of a camera,

turning right and left,

gradually sharpening the vision

until suddenly, voila!

We see clearly.

Regaining Awareness

Question: Why isn’t the Creator happy when a person enjoys his corporeal life and feels satisfied?

It doesn’t make the Creator happy because it is not the pleasure He intended to give us. Initially, He created a state where we were filled with light, but now we are not feeling it.

We are in an infinite, eternal world, but it is hidden from us. We are like an unconscious person who is really in this world, yet his senses perceive nothing of his surroundings.

The Creator cannot leave us unconscious, with merely a spark of light given to us only to somehow sustain us.

We are unaware of it, and we are willing to settle for the pleasures we experience at present. Nevertheless, it is clear that the plan of the Creator—to lead us to far greater pleasure—cannot remain unfulfilled.

A Field of Love

The Creator is a spiritual field of love and bestowal.

We move within in it by shifting our desires, while constantly being at the point of resemblance to this field.

Initially, we are opposite from the field; we are in its outermost circle, called “This World.”

To the extent of our level of desire to draw nearer to the center, to the quality of the Creator of love and bestowal, we evoke the influence of this field upon us, and it shifts our position.

Accordingly, it is clear that we cannot ask the Creator to change His attitude toward us or hope for any special favors on His part. It is as pointless as asking gravity not to affect our bodies.

The Creator is a force that is inconsiderate of our words, but considers instead our innermost desires.

The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches the laws of the spiritual world; it is spiritual physics.

“Above”

in nature

there is a force

that responds

only to one’s request

to become loving and giving

The Point and the Light

Question: Is it possible to point to an inner compass that guides us in our spiritual development?

To prepare us for spiritual development, nature awakens two sensations within us. The first is that this world is empty, and the second is a yearning to attain the origin of life, the awakening of the point in the heart.

Because our world is a spiritual field, just like a magnetic field, this point will lead us to a place where we can nourish it, fulfill it.

We should advance on our spiritual path only from within this point. We should neither believe anyone nor be influenced by any “words of wisdom” that we may be told. Rather, we should check everything out for ourselves; this is how we discern our way.

This scrutiny is fuelled by our demand to know the truth. We must not agree to be told, “First you must do... and then... there are conditions...”—there aren’t any!

Just as you are naked in the middle of the world, this is how you reach the Creator.

The Light is what affects the point within you. And there is nothing other than those two. Learn how to connect your desire with the Light and march forward.