Rabbah

Class Studies

The Laws of Nature and Divinity in Human Nature

All philosophy or history of philosophy, of the Western world and some of the Eastern, is through looking at the laws of nature. Through observing the laws of nature man derives his morality.

The nature of the law inside humans is the will to receive.

Torah is saying to us that humanity is not only composed of that nature, but also of nature of the line, of the ability to choose with the part that is divine that needs to work inside this law of nature and actually to compel it to the nature of the inner divinity within it.

This begins with hu, He, meaning that which is concealed. He and his name are one, 'HU U'SHEMO ECHAD', meaning He and his will, or the 'Createe', are one. But it actually completes itself by 'HU ECHAD U'SHEMO ECHAD', meaning each one is one completion. This means that U'SHEMO is not being devoured and cancelled by the light of the Creator, but it is actually able to be Face to Face.

Face to Face is a deep notion in Kabbalah and in Israel. It means that not only am I not being devoured by the Light but that I have a unique self-definition, which I or humanity, acquired through the qualities of the Creator, summed up by the ability to create.

This is the Eighth day that brings to the Tenth day, meaning that the whole system of the sefirot KETER, CHOCHMA and BINAH is included. Then you could say that humanity might be able to create—to give space of itself, in generosity, for something to be created.