And When It Rose – Part 1
The first lesson took place on the evening of “Tu Bishvat”. This is to do with the root of the influence, and the road of measurement. The road of judgement, of decision,. Whether or not we will be able to use all of the powers that were given to us in a way that it will bear fruits. It is to do with the portion of Torah – Beshalach – a birth of a nation. A birth of a group of spirit which were hasten, which were born pre-mature. As any pre-mature newborn they need a specific treatment.
Therefore, it seems that any redemption has a sense of failure. A sense of what was near accomplishment but wasn’t. We are on a road of completion. A process of perfecting a consciousness, new senses.
It is the ability to give birth, fruits. Whether we as a tree – a connective membrane – between a Higher and lower, between Divinity and corporeality…can spread a connection to all beings, to let them know through the language of the trees what is needed.
Bearing fruits has to do with the ability to bestow. Do we wish to be those who plant, or those who always calculate if they will plant or not, depending on what they have to gain from it.
” Behold, before the emanations were emanated, and creatures created…a supreme expanding simple light had filled all there is. And there was no vacant space in… but all were filled with infinite expanding light. All were one expanding light, completely even called Or Ein Sof – infinite light. ”
The first notion that Baal Hasulam is asking us to consider is the difficulty of dealing or expressing the beginning. To speak about spiritual matters, which have no time or space or motion. We need to know what kind of language when we speak about Godliness or Divinity.
Kabbalists found a ready made language called “language of branches”, knowing that each word in Hebrew ( a root language). Any type of form of a reality that we find in ourselves using in the language has a higher root – a source – which is called Shoresh.
When we say Behold, the Ari in 16th century – understanding Zohar and Torah as the story of the action of light – therefore, it is difficult to speak about before or after. But, we need to understand what is the root of things. The root suggests that any phenomena, anything in itself, as we perceive it, has a root – is being held from above with a precise meaning. It is more than a meaning, it is the source of life of anything…of all source of life.
All name of things are rooted – everything we see that there is, its root is in ‘Ein’…not exactly nothingness…it is Keter – the thought of the Creator of it. The meaning that was attributed to its existence, from the beginning.
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