Light Becomes Matter 1

Please. So after we've said shama and we've talked about the oneness of God like in real terms of oneness like oneness and no otherness. So then we whisper the words. We whisper these. What are they six? Six words. We whisper these six words. Now there's a couple of questions. One, why do we whisper them? Secondly, why do we say them? Because they're not part of the Torah. Meaning, when we start vaha, that's back to the Torah. That's what comes after Shama. Why do we pause and whisper these other words? Um, but what I what I want to share with you is the following. The reason we whisper is because how Hashem is hidden in creation. That's the idea whispering. When you whisper to someone, you're trying to hide what you're saying. So we're saying God is ultimate oneness, but there's a world down here. There's like physicality. So when I mention how God infuses the physical world with his oneness, I'm going to whisper that. Okay, we have the same notion in the of uh I'm not going there right now, but whatever. There's a there's a small h in the Torah. You know how there some letters are big in the Torah and some letters are little. There's a tiny hay in the Torah and we learn that God created the world with that tiny hay. Why with the tiny hay? Because because the world is such a it's such a downside, such a step down conversion of infinite oneness that it's this little concept. So that's the whispering. That's why we whisper. But the actual words, every one of those words is actually a code word for downsized. Every word is a codes code word for this kind of finiting. If you can turn finite into a verb, finiting of infinite creating finite from infinite, this downsizing, this squelching, this veiling, this occulting into into physicality. So for example, the word bar, the word bar means to lower also. It's from the word knees. It's the word in Hebrew for the word for knee is ber. If you look look at my stature now. Okay, let's say I'll put this pen at my height. Look at my stature now when I put my legs my knees down. Okay, when you when you have a camel go down, you ever seen a camel go down? It first goes down in the front legs and then it slides down, but it goes to its knees. The word is it's this bringing down. So the whole point of the knees is humility and bringing down. Some people pray on bent knees. Other religions we do we go down on our knees on and then all the way down. But it all starts with it's to be to to go down on your knees. That's the need just lowering. Okay. That's the next word is shame which means name shame right name. The word name, right? Shame is what it means is that every Hashem created the world ultimately with himself out of himself out of his names. He used names to create the world. There's many names of God and each one relates to something. There's a name of expanded flow which is yud and hashem. There's a name of sha and then die. says it on the muza shin. What's that mean? Shed die. That it's enough. That's a limiter type of name of God. Limits. It's enough. Meaning don't bowl over the creation with infinite light. Name Elohim, which kind of gives it's also a bordering name that creates a uh more of a vessel for the light to fulfilling. So the whole world's made of God's name. So bu means to lower. Shame is how God so to speak shows up in physical. Of course so to speak God doesn't necessarily show up in the physical but you understand that shame cavode the word cavode means honor or glory. And the word cavode is also meaning I don't know how to tell you this exactly but one of the names for god in this world is cavode. um they say are the angels. They don't know who to bow down to. Whether to bow down to God or bow down to us, they don't know who to bow down to because they see that Hashem's kav is both here and there. Although the true place of God's kav is up there. Uh muso is obviously meaning this world. Mus means his kingdom. Melik Mus his kingdom. So and then is also talking about this world cuz you know what the word the root means? World means world and also means hidden means hidden. So God is hidden in the world. He's hidden in the physicality. So it's the same every word of that sentence is hinting at this oneness. And then ved is that's a more coalistic one. It's a play on the word. The last word of shad and the word ved is a cabalistic uh numerical play on the word. Okay. So where we've gotten to now is we've understood that God is, you know, that oneness. So there's like in there's inside space and time. There's outside space and time. And Hashem is ultimately both inside and outside space and time. Really, it's all his oneness. That's all there really is. But then what we're going to be discussing now is to go into understanding let let's bring our circle back. Now what we're going to be understanding is how infinite moves towards the finite. So what we're going to find is that there's inter intermediate stages of infinite moving towards finite and we're going to understand those stages in detail. So it would look like this. You've got this this is like outside space and time on this side. Then you've got this whole new realm in the middle which has two stages. Stage one is here. Stage two is here. And then stage three is our world. Meaning we live inside here. You know our galaxy would be like that dot there inside there. Now it's all made of God. And I would keep the squiggly lines throughout the whole thing representing that it's all really of God. But I've now created some space. It's so to speak, not real space, but I've created the space for these intermediate sections of creation of going from this imminent outside space and time to this imminent inside space and time with intermediate stages. So what it turns out at the end is what probabists generally discuss is four worlds four different realms. That's 1 2 3 4. Now two of them we've already discussed in great detail. One is the God's absolute oneness surrounding the creation. We've also we don't need to discuss the fact that we live inside this world. I mean, when you see a bus driving down the street, you know it's something you might want to think twice about before you step off the curb. And we know this world has its reality to it. This is like the matrix. This is the what create what's creating the matrix. Um meaning the the what's emanating the world. But these intermediate stages are filtering stages which are filtering out the infinite light to become ultimately matter. Now physicists and cobalists agree basically down the line but most importantly physicists agree with coalists that the world is made of light energy. And so to the comas say that out here is this emanation of light energy. We call it the orain so in Hebrew. It's called the orain so orain so [Music] and they would call it light energy and the orane soap is only going to create light. Anything it creates is light. It's all it does is emanate. It emanates light. Well, if it emanates light, then all there will be is light. The only way that there can be a physical world is if that light is filtered out in some way, which is very much like a film projector.