Before the Beginning of Time: Part 2

THE CREATION OF MAN

Man was created on the sixth day. Before that there was chaos and disorder. With the Blessed One's utterance we see how things were created. However, some parts remained concealed to us- such as the creation of the chaos and the disorder.

However, as some sage teach, within the chaos and disorder, worlds were created and then destroyed. Even afterwards, when man was created -things were made one way and then re-arranged. For a purpose!

Some sages say that when the Holy One, Blessed be He, created Man, He made man and woman stuck together -one in back of the other. Thereafter, they were split -but the yearning to return together was now in place.

Stories that will be referred to...
If you can imagine: A man and a woman standing back to back. Then they come apart from each other into the coldness of the air. they both turn around to see where did their warmth go and they see each other. She stands on her tippy toes and they come together in an embrace.




When God created man, He created him in his image.

i.e. not exactly like Himself, but in an image of Himself.

I compare that to a superhero who puts out his hand and zaps an image into the sky. Its an image of himself. Then, slowly slowly the image begins to free fall. Its falling into the different realms with its final destination being the world of ACTION. Our world.

In reverse order:

First comes the world of ACTION. That is where we are now. Here action matters. You either do, and it happens; or you don't do, and it doesn't happen.

Surrounding that world, is the world of SPEECH. Here what you say matters.

Higher than that comes the world of THOUGHT.

Higher than that is nothingness

Higher than that.... is beyond us!

So here's this superhero's image falling slowly slowly into our world. Past Nothingness world... passing through the world of thought...and so on.. The more it enters our crass, gross, and very physical realm, the more it can not maintain its oneness -or rather the more it has to divide in order to be more palatable to us.

Thus, instead of one great image descending, it breaks down into various attributes that formed into separate entities. Kindness becomes separate from Harshness, Empathetic is its own thing, DOMINEER becomes its own thing, etc.

Here is a graph -very useful- of the various attributes that was divided into parts:



I think its important that Black folks pay close attention to Malchut (and by default "Keter") It will come to be a big player in these notes.