And When it Rose – Part 4
As we continue the series, some questions arise from students. One of the questions was about ‘the lack of understanding’, regardless of the language – Hebrew, Aramaic, or even English.
This is what Rabbah Saphir Noyman Eyal explained:
There is a beautiful, classic, generous answer to that question by Baal Haulam. Baal Hasulam understands that as we read ARI or Zohar, with all concealment, the first thing we meet is – not understanding. There is a law of ‘terms of engagement’. If a person preservers, not understanding but wishing to, they are drawing the light that belongs to their spirit.
Understanding – is standing under. In Hebrew – its is called: ‘Lehavin’. Expansion. Your heart can express the quality of Bina. We need therefore to stand under Bina to understand. So, the question is where to stand to understand..in order to be under Bina. When you say I want to understand, you stand under Malchut – the will to receive for oneself. But, when you say ‘ Thought I don’t understand, but I wish to have a vessel in me to carve an ability to understand’ this is the gap.
When we are saying we don’t understand in Hebrew or even in English…or Aramaic – a language that was in those times, when Zohar was written – there was a gap of understanding and attitude. It was to create a difference between reer and front. Aramaic forms that which is colloquial language of the time. Hebrew gives the face. Then you have a gap.
Ari is using a different gap – gap of terms of Kabbalah – which is again different from Hebrew. When someone reads Ari, and understands it…they realize they don’t understand the root of Hebrew as it is spoken.
So, I am not able to understand – is a calling! I am asking to understand…but not on my terms…but on the gap of what it wishes to tell me and what I wish to know. This is the triangle.
The other point is – how is the adequate will created? It is not a given state. It is when we come to say – we need to understand. We want to understand, not to control it, but to fulfill our duty. The light then doesn’t give us the understanding…but carving a tool, a need, that is built in a more adequate position to the light. So, the first extension of the light to us, is being uncomfortable in perception and feeling in ourselves.
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