Who Moves?

People may be wondering why is it that I focus so much on the “Tzimtzum”. Truthfully, it’s because it’s the universe’s very earliest and still enduring love story. It’s a record of the first interaction between male and female. Also, it has imprinted every male and female interaction ever since ~ whether cosmic or human.

The way the story is related, the Infinite Light withdrew uniformly in all directions. Concurrently, from a different perspective, the dispersed elements later comprising the cosmic feminine gathered together from the endlessly vast fabric of the Infinite Light.   Once gathered, there was a concentration of these elements which pulled together, tighter and tighter, contracting into a hollow sphere; inhabited by a dense afterglow of the surrounding Infinite Light.  It makes sense to me that due to this “contraction” of cosmic femininity, in English the “Tzimtzum” is often translated as, “the contraction”.

There’s a notion in the theory of relativity that when two objects move closer to or further from each other in non-gravitational space, it is unclear which item moved. Of course in gravity filled space, it is clear who moved. The one who expended energy! However, energy to move is only necessary in zones affected by gravity. In a gravity free zone, moving takes no energy. A ball thrown in space would just keep on going, going and ... No stopping! No refuel!

Under such conditions whose moving and whose stationary can’t be proven. Clearly, at least one object is moving or the distance between them would remain constant. However, which one is moving (or even both) can’t be proven. Either object’s status as stationary or moving blur!

If such relativity of motion applies to physical space, how much more so beyond physical space. So who moved away from whom? Did the Infinite Light withdraw outward from the empty hollow (inhabited by the afterglow) or did the empty hollow withdraw from the Infinite Light by gathering, concentrating and contracting into the cosmic feminine? It’s not really clear.

Though commonly held that the Infinite Light withdrew, it should be equally correct to claim that the cosmic feminine, while forming, did the moving as she consolidated and contracted; like the moon in the Midrashic story diminishing herself. In this scenario, it only appeared from her perspective that the Infinite Light withdrew - as both growth and shrinkage are kinds of motion.

It actually makes more sense to me that it was the material of empty hollow which did the moving; rather than the Infinite Light. Here’s why? As it’s stirred by lack, movement is a function of being finite - not Infinite. The more finite, the more lacking. Therefore, in weighing between the Infinite Light and the empty hollow, it makes sense that the more finite of the two would be the one to be in motion;  i.e. the empty hollow (along with the contained afterglow).

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Withdrawal or Contraction?

For those who have studied the story of the "Tzimtzum" from Lurianic Kabbalah, I have always wondered why the "Tzimtzum" is often translated as "the contraction". I would have expected that the word "withdrawal" would have been a more idiomatically apt description of the event.

Today, it dawned on me that besides "contraction" being a better literal translation, it also points to an important aspect of the event. The "Tzimtzum" didn't simply happen by the Infinite Light withdrawing from a space. It happened via a polarization of the earliest expression of cosmic masculine and feminine.

During this polarization, the components of the cosmic feminine gathered together from out of the fabric of the Infinite Light and then "contracted", forming the "Reshimu" or the "afterglow". (It is misleading to think of the newly formed area as hollow or empty. That was only in a very relative sense.)

So it is the "contraction" of the cosmic feminine which was a very key driving force behind the event - making the term "contraction" far more idiomatically correct than I initially thought.

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The Difference

The difference between the blessings of our current lives and those of the messianic era is like the difference between an exiled princess receiving delivered packages of royal food from her parents, often compromised by the circumstances of delivery, and her enjoying fresh delicious foods at her parents' table.

Sufficiency

Please God grant me a sufficiency of my own portion. Whatever I think I lack isn't found in someone else's portion, but in what is yet to be revealed of my own.

Answer Births Question

Answer births question,

 As water births thirst.

Had the cosmos lacked water,

 It would lack thirst too.

So the presence of questions,

 Is evidence of answers.

As soul is to body,

 So is answer to question.

The birth of body,

 Is in separation from soul.

The birth of question,

 Is in separation from answer.

Why’s birth in separation,

 Just to reunite what was?

What’s gained by ripping,

 Only to repaste what was?

Along the seams of torn,

 Buds a new relationship.

It’s for this preciousness,

 That all seams are born.

In struggling with question,

 The answer comes so alive;

Not as passive information,

 But as fresh vivid awareness,

That tingles the spine,

 Rouses celebration in heart,

With flute, guitar n’ drums,

 As the singer does her part.

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Big Question

Welcome “Big Question”,

 Surprised I yearn for you;

Though not pretty,

 But hard, black n’ rough?

Yes, you're an ugly coal,

 So difficult to set alight.

My soul struggles n’ sweats,

 Bit by bit to consume you.

You resist her efforts so,

 Arousing her with appetites.

Finally ... her flame catches,

 Making her far more luminous;

As what was once coal,

 Slowly transforms into soul.

She becomes bigger, brighter,

 Illuminating ever farther reaches.

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Global Love Fire

The world is on fire,

  Only it doesn’t yet know.

It is burning with love,

  Yet secret recesses obscure.

There’s love in the air,

  I feel it, but can’t explain it.

I smell it in my soul,

 Yet know not its source.

This fire doesn’t destroy,

  It’s a fire of healing n’ warmth.

As you conflagrate,

  You’ll become more alive.

You’ll burn others too,

  As your aura radiates theirs.

Don’t be afraid of fire,

 When it’s the kind we all want.

We all want a world,

  Filled with love and kindness.

Bask in the fire n’ share,

  Spread it around n’ care.

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