The One Who Created Love
The Creator is the force of bestowal and love, and one who loves feels great suffering if he is unable to delight his beloved. The suffering that comes from the inability to bestow is much greater than the suffering that comes from not receiving. It is written, "A cow wants to feed more than the calf wants to eat." The Upper Level greatly suffers when it cannot give of its perfection to the lower level due to the latter's inability to receive it.
The Creator is the desire to bestow, give, and love. However, we shouldn't think that there is no lack in this desire-there is. Only it doesn't come from a lack of fulfillment, but from being unable to share its perfection. This is why the Creator created the will to enjoy-it was in order to fulfill it and express His love toward it.
Our desire already contains all the prerequisites necessary for receiving all of the Creator's Light and love. However, in order for us to understand what He does and to feel what He gives us, we have to become similar to Him, reaching the same level and qualities. To do this, we are missing just one component-our independence, our own desire to feel His love and to accept Him as the one we love.
Unless this aspiration comes from us, it can't be considered love. After all, you can't buy love; you can only buy different services. For example, I pay money at a barber shop, a doctor's office, or a restaurant, and the people there take care of me from the bottom of their hearts. However, they do it because they love money, not me. What can I do to make them love me? This is a question we cannot answer.
Real love is possible only if I am completely independent of others. Yet it is written that the Creator is "the first and the last." Therefore, He faces a problem of how to create us while making us completely independent from Him, and at the same time, making us such that we can develop love for Him until we feel, "I am the first and I am the last" in this regard. This means that the ten Sefirot of Direct Light clothe the ten Sefirot of Reflected Light and complement each other.
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