Kabbalah Secrets

While the teacher is looking over his material, I think to myself what a wonderful world God created. Did God shape the world like Teacher Elijah describes? Did he shape the world with the paintbrush of belief? Does God meditate every day to enhance His ability to focus, like people do? So I turn to teacher Elijah and ask: “Can you explain to me who is God?”

My teacher seems surprised at the question. He arranges his seating position, as does a person who is about to answer a question on a test. “God is love.”

“So simple?”

“Yes, it’s all simple.”

“And yet how does He live?”

“Everything that lives in the end dies. God does not live and does not die. He is not found in a place that people can understand. People only understand the limited human nature. God is not limited. Life is limited. To be is a limitation. He is not limited. God is not found anywhere and He is everywhere.”

“If I want to speak to Him or communicate with Him, what must I do?”

“What does your hand do if it wants to scratch the leg? How does it speak to the leg?”

“It just goes to the place that itches and scratches, without speaking.”

“This is what you need to do. You are a part and God is all. You are like a limb in God’s body. God is found in you and you are found in Him, just like love is found everywhere and every place has love. “

“Why love? “

“Love is the power of life. This is the hidden light that God gave man and this is like the light of the sun, without the light of the sun, life will not exist, without love people die.”

“True, I heard that children die without love, this is real … when I speak to God or to myself, is it the same thing?”

“Yes.”

“Do I love God, it is like loving myself?”

“Yes. Hence, if you love yourself, then God loves you.”

“So everybody who loves himself loves God and lives correctly. God loves a person who loves, since he is love.”

“Is God like the father of everyone?”

“Yes, it can be seen like that.”

“Then all children are the children of God?”

“Yes, we are all His children.”

“So why do children long for God?”

“Because children long for life and love, and thus children long for God.”

“Then God is the father of all fathers?”

“Correct. Every result has a cause and the cause of all these causes is love.”

“God is the father of all fathers and the cause of all fathers?”

“Correct, and it can also be said that God is the love of all the fathers and the cause of the loves.”

“If God is love and I am his son, then am I, too, love?”

“Very correct. You are love and the son of love.”

“And when I speak to God, it is as if I am asking for love?”

“Yes, it is exactly that.”

You Are Love

“If every person is the son of God, then every person is love?”

“Yes.”

“If when I am lacking in love, can I obtain it from anybody and through this connect to God?”

“Yes, that is exactly how it works. Everyone is light, everyone is love, everyone is part of God, when you love yourself, you love God. When you love another person, you love God. When you love yourself, you can love another person, when you love nature, you love God, since God is all there is.”

“Can I love every person?”

“Yes, if you really love yourself, you can find in every person something to love.”

“If I find in a person one thing to love and through this love him, am I like God?”

“Yes, you are acting like the Creator, you are becoming like the Creator and in this way you draw close to him. When you love, you are in the light, you are a part of the light, you are the light.”

“Then why does God allow some people to be hungry – are they not His children?”

“You think that God is abandoning His children? Is this what you think? “

“Yes, I know children who take food from the garbage. These are children whom God has abandoned to starvation.”

“I will explain to you how things happen. First, you must know that what you see with your eyes is not exact and in many cases what you see with your eyes is the opposite of the truth. You have a limitation and a limitation always shows the opposite. To verify what you see with your eyes, you have to apply all of your twelve senses.”

“I will explain to you through an example. When a child becomes five years old and he walks and runs, and has done so for a number of years, does the child agree to hold a person’s hand to walk from his room to the kitchen?”

“No.”

“Does an eighteen year old youth agree to hold my hand to cross the street?”

“No.”

“Father God gives a hand to His children and gives them all the knowledge they need to be what they want to be. But they do not want the hand extended to them – they want to go it alone. At your age, do you want your father to help you take a shower?”

“No, never, I am big now.”

“Good, this is what happens with God, as well. He extends a hand to help, but His children want to reach their own successes alone. Second, God helps His children so that they won’t be crippled.”

“What do you mean – crippled?”

“Describe to yourself your father doing everything for you. Serving you coffee, going instead of you to work, getting you dressed every morning, and showering you every evening. Wouldn’t you feel crippled?”

“Yes, I would feel that he is stifling me out of love.”

“Yes, God gives love and support at the correct degree needed by the person so that on the one hand people can exist and on the other hand they will not be crippled. Hence, you understand that what you see with our eyes is not the truth necessarily; it’s just your eyes seeing the opposite.”

Yes, I see how everything is backwards. “In the answers that you give me are there also answers that come from the Kabalah and the Zohar?”

“Yes. The knowledge is from the secrets of the Kabala and the wisdom of the East. There are answers that rely upon new messages that have been communicated.”

“I don’t know what is communication. You are immersing me in fascinating knowledge and I am finding myself wanting to ask you a number of questions at the same time and it is  a pity that it is not possible. Therefore, I ask to put aside of a few moments the issue of communication and to continue the previous theme.”