WeekPreface to the Book of Zohar

 

WeekPreface to the Book of Zohar

"These degrees exist only with respect to me, not outside of me. They exist in potential, meaning if I want to receive, it will affect me according to my measure of similarity, and it will be as if the ladder of degrees has been built over me.

Let us assume that there is a magnetic or electric field, and there is a charged particle in it. This particle then "catches" the affect of the field on it. It "knows" that there is a charge-field because it is inside that electric or magnetic field, and is therefore affected by it. If it weren't inside the field, would it know that there is a field? Of course not.

Why is it dark and totally black in outer space? After all, there is tons of light there, the sun, the stars. Only if there is something that can "catch" it, will it discover that there is light there. But if there is nothing in the way of the rays, you cannot see the light there.

When light comes in through the window, for example, if there is no dust in the air, or if nothing else stands in the way of the light, you will never see that it's there. The reason is that we see everything only in Reflected Light, in rejection. Hence, if there is no creature that receives, rejects, and feels, you cannot say that anything exists around it. In that state we say that there is only the Thought of Creation to do good to His creations, which is called Ein Sof." more

Rav Michael Laitman, PhD view lesson