em | שמחה<p>Matts then continues with a quote from Dov Baer:</p><blockquote><p>If the material world were constantly attached to the Creator without any forgetting, the creatures' existence would be nullified, [since] they would be attached to the root, to <u>ayin</u>. Thus they would do nothing, considering themselves to be <u>ayin</u>. So there had to be a breaking [of the vessels], which brought about forgetting the root. Everyone could then lift his hand and act. Afterwards, through Torah and prayer, they attach themselves to the root, to <u>ayin</u>... and thereby raise the sparks of the material world,... bringing pleasure to God.</p></blockquote><p>Especially this last quote addresses two major issues that both sound like the same question, "why are we here?" </p><p>'Why are <em>we</em> here?' as in, if God is One, how can "we" perceive ourselves as separate. and <br>'Why are we <em>here</em>?' as in why would the infinite manifest itself in a physical world, why even <u>do a creation</u>? </p><p><a href="https://babka.social/tags/jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jewish</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/monism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>monism</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/pantheism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pantheism</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/panentheism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>panentheism</span></a><br><a href="https://babka.social/tags/mazeldon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mazeldon</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/kabbalah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kabbalah</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/philosohy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosohy</span></a></p>