Introduction to Kabbalah: The Spiritual Essence of the World - Rabbi Akiva Tatz

maybe we could study a little cabala together can we do that that good you know the idea is that cabala is the spiritual core of the world it is like the genetic material that emanates into reality so if you grasp an idea in this area of wisdom then you have a key to understanding many things just like I happen to be a doctor and you know in medicine when you study the body you go back to the genetics you go back to embryology how the fetus is formed and from there you go back to the genes no one serious studies anything medical today without going back to genetics if that explains things if you know how to read the genes then you know what emanates from them so you always go back to the deepest level of explanation in chemistry and physics and Mathematics we go back to the principles the laws you don't want the details you want the rules the laws that's what kabala is very abstract ra but you grasp an idea in that field of wisdom you have a key to explaining many things so let me share with you an idea that is very relevant to moving from kanaka on into the rest of the winter and let's see if we can feel this in Torah and then in life so here's the idea in the great cabalistic work works for example the great which is the prime commentary on the Zar great cabalistic work one of the first areas that's discussed is the fact that the world is built on light light and there always two lights why we talk about light needs explanation but let's just say the world is something that's revealed to us and the medium of Revelation is light so so we say that all that is built is amination of lights but the point is that when the light shines it always shines twice always two lights always in pairs the first light is perfect but it never lasts the second light is nothing compared to the first but it's the one that lasts and the one that is intended in more detail the first light is a very very intense because it needs to open a space where there was no space before once it opens the space we're talking about creating a space soon as it's done that it goes away and then it leaves a very painful longing for the light that was there in the darkness that it leaves behind and that longing that that suffering brings back this light a second time but the second time the light comes back in it's nothing compared to the first but this second light remains now I'm sure you feel very cabalistic enlightened but that's the idea well let's think it through a little bit more let's take it one level down the first light is the world of possibilities before thing can be it must be possible before an object can exist it must have a place right you cannot have a thing without a place before an event can be or anything can be in the world it must be possible so first the possibility has to open after it's possible then the thing happens and the possibilities are always infinite the first light is always infinite right for example let's bring it down another step you wake up in the morning there's anything you could do today you have endless possibilities you could do millions of things well you could do one of millions of things what you actualize is is always limited the possibilities are infinite we call them anof no end to the possibilities the the thrill the exhilaration of the beginning of a project like waking up in the morning is that the day is completely open the blessing of that moment is that it's all infinitely possible the danger is you've done nothing yet when you finish the day the C the blessing of the end of the day is that you've done it whatever you achieved you achieved the curse is that's all all the others that you could have done have disappeared is is this clear so the world of potential is infinite and perfect this world of potential is called male male the world of the real is called female the blessing of the male is infinite potential the curse of the male is just potential the blessing of the female is she brings birth to the world child is born but the curse of the female is it's only this one the cabalists say that the pain of our world is that it's only this one the beauty of the world is that it's here by the way you know it's very interesting that male and female I'll never forget the experience of having to dissect a human embryo at medical school I had to dissect an unborn child and one of the things you see which is amazing you see that the organs that form seed they form from the kidneys see this little baby 2 months old 3 months I'm talking about 3 months of intrauterine development see a piece of the kidney breaks off and it starts moving down in the body any any medical students here this piece of tissue moves down in the body to become the organs that form seed in the male they become organs that form seed by the billion billion in the woman they form eggs one at a time time and you can count each one and if she ovulates every month of her fertile life she will use every single one it's complete opposites and when male and female meet the male gives seed by the billion and the woman gives one egg only the male is a hopeless hopeless overabundance of potential no hope of ever coming to fruition and the woman makes it specific in Hebrew in Hebrew the word for female is Nika Nika means female female and it means to make limited to make specific the ones who are fixed by name fix your wages and I'll pay you give me a number imagine a person walks up to you and says say any number you want I give you that much money any number this is male when you say a number two things happen when you say a number you get the money and not one sent more but you have to say a number while it's living in the world of potential that could be bigger and bigger there nothing when you fix it and it can be in the world then you have it but only that are we together and therefore the world of potential is always amazing the first light is infinite but it's only there to make things possible then it goes away then you have to make the real you have to decide which it is you wake up in the morning that's a gift the days ahead of you it's amazing now you have to take over now what are you going to do so you have to make a choice very painful that's why men don't like making choices they want it all open the moral says that's why man can marry many women man can marry many women it's a multi potential Source what woman in a right mind would want more than one husband one's usually more than so that's it that's the first light and it's always perfect and it's there to inspire and uplift and open the possibilities and then it goes