Make Your Desire Like His
When reading
The Book of Zohar, we have to see the Light in it that corrects us and returns
us to the source. But what
has to be returned to the source? I have to place something "beneath" the
Light. The Light shines, but do we have the desire that we want to correct?
This is what we have to be concerned with.
The desire
has to be suitable for being corrected by the Light. If the desire does not
correspond to it, then the Light still influences it, but in that case we feel
bad to the extent of our desire's difference from the Light. This remains so
until we make our desire suitable for correction.
That's why
there is a rule, "Make your desire like His" and then "He will make your desire
like His," like the desire to bestow and love.
From the 2nd part
of the Daily
Kabbalah Lesson 05/08/11, The Zohar
All the Problems Come From a Lack of Light
Question: What is the use of studying The Book of Zohar if I discover
that I am merely trying to run away from my earthly problems?
Dr.
Laitman's Answer: A person studying The Zohar does not have any earthly problems besides one: to unite with the friends to
such a degree that the upper Light will become revealed inside of the connection
between them. All the problems come only from the lack of Light. There is no
other source and no other solution.
A person can
fuss about and try to correct this state using all the possible earthly means,
and he will discover that he seems to have corrected it, but instead of
correcting it, even worse problems arose, and everything became much worse. Why
is that?
That's
because he thought that he could overcome the previous problems alone, but
maybe now, when greater troubles came crashing down on him, he will no longer
think that he will overcome them alone and perhaps he will turn to the right
solution. And if that doesn't help, then he will be sent even greater problems
until his cup of suffering overflows and he will see "the hand of God" in it,
like Pharaoh's sages did.
From the 2nd part of the Daily
Kabbalah Lesson 05/08/11, The Zohar
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