The Creation: The Vision of the End is Inherent in its Beginning

by Yedidah on October 30, 2015

child in wonder at creation: seeing the fulfillment in its inception, from the Zohar, explained by Rabbi Ashlag in the Perush HaSulam

Rabbi Ashlag teaches, that when we come to build a house, we first have to start off with the vision of our final dwelling. We need to imagine for ourselves our bungalow, or our block of offices or our wooden hut in the woods. Only then we can start to make real plans and take the steps we need to fulfill our vision in actuality.

Likewise, the first sentence of the creation story which opens the Torah, was not seen by the Sages, as a beginning of construction, but as a vision of the final purpose of creation. Within the words of the first sentence of creation we find its ultimate vision of completion in which all humankind will have the knowledge of God , according to the Scripture, “for the world will be filled with the knowledge of God as the water covers the sea”(Isaiah 11: 9).

What will the world be like for us? how will we embody this fulfillment of consciousness in reality?

Inspired by Rabbi Ashlag’s teaching on the Zohar, and the first paragraph of Pirkei Avot chapter 6

This podcast is dedicated in love for a Refuah Shlemah to the innocent victims wounded in the recent terror attacks in Israel.

 

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