Introduction to the Book of Zohar (PDF) - Kabbalah Media Archive

I N T RO D U C T I O N T O T H E B O O K O F Z O H A R
Fourth question:
Our mind makes us acknowledge the Creator's absolute kindness
and that He only performs kindness, so that there is nothing higher
than He.
Fundamentally, our mind does not agree to that. Many believe that
the world is governed by a single “evil force”. Kabbalists tell us about the
essence of the Creator. They are on a different level of attainment. Baal
HaSulam provokes us with questions that have not yet materialized for
us. Nevertheless, they have been already resolved for him.
Hence, he offsets what he conceived on the upper, perfect level to
our imperfect condition. He does this from the foundation of these two
points where the first point is he being at the state of the Creator and
another point is we at our current state. He demonstrates a difference
between these states that are called questions. All our questions come
from discrepancies and oppositions to his state. So he says:
Our mind makes us acknowledge (from its perception) the fact
that the Creator is all kind and performs only kindness, so that there
is nothing higher than He. However, how could He create so many
forms which, from the very beginning, are destined to spend all the
days of their existence in suffering and grief?
(Now he is asking at
our level). If that was not done in kindness, could it at least have
been done with less evil (He created us)?!
Why did He create us to harm? In addition, why, even now when
we are just beginning to study the path we must take in order to reach the
Purpose of creation, do we see that every step of the way consists of continuous
falling and rising, that the lower the falling, the higher the rising?
Nothing is comprehended unless a Kli has been comprehended
first, a suffering, and feeling of worthlessness, inferiority, depression,
emptiness, opposition to the Creator. Only then, follow the revelation
of the Creator and unification with Him.
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