Divinity cannot be comprehended in this world and can only be comprehended in the world to come

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Divinity cannot be comprehended in this world and can only be comprehended in the world to come:[1]

The ray of the Divine presence in the world to come is not similar at all to the revelation of G-dly energy within the worlds, as the G-dly energy within the world is not comprehended at all, while the divine presence shines and is comprehended by the souls and creations in the world. The divine energy that surrounds and enlivens the world while it may appear to be limited and defined to the limitations of the item that it is enlivening, in truth, the divine energy is infinite and incomprehensible, being infinitely above and beyond the limitations of its creation. Thus, while the divine energy within the worlds is too high to be comprehended, the divine Ray that shines within the garden of Eden is limited enough to be comprehensible. [The novelty of this statement in contrast to what is apparent from other areas of Chassidus, is that the G-dliness that enlivens the worlds of Biyah remain infinite and incomprehensible in their essence, and it is only in the garden of Eden that comprehension of the essence of even a glimmer of G-dliness can begin.[2]] The reason that the divinity that is found in the world is too high for comprehension is because G-d enters His very essence into the divine ray that He shines, as the verse states “that I fill all the worlds,” which means that He lowers Himself into the divine ray to allow it to create the world, as will now be explained next that this is a trait of humility of G-d.

  The Divine Lesson:

All over the world people are searching for G-dliness and spirituality, turning to various outlets of religion and spiritual enlightenment. These people world over are in the quest to find the divine much similar to an insect trying to reach the light of a star that he is attracted to, or to a lost man trying to find his home. Their goal is to immediately achieve that which they are searching for to bask in the divine, to experience G-d, and in the parable, to find the star and settle on it and to find the lost home and live in it. The only problem is that the insect is too distanced from the star to ever be able to actually land on it, and the lost man is in a different continent than his lost home, and thus no matter how long he searches, and no matter how high the insect flies, he will never be able to reach his goal. Similarly, our quest for G-d will never be quenched in this physical world [until the future era] in the form of feeling the Divine and experiencing unity with it, as this type of experience is limited to the world to come and the garden of Eden which is where our souls will rest in the future, for those who merit. Our quest in this world must be to do everything right and correct according to G-d’s laws and instructions in order to merit to then have a ticket to enter the next world in which the experience of the divine becomes plausible and possible. To desert the G-d-given instructions of how man must live his life in this world due to his quest for feeling and experience of ecstasy of bonding with G-dliness, is both futile and deceiving as it is something that he will never truly achieve. He may deceit himself to believe that he is really experiencing it, although he will not experience it in truth. [The point is, that those who feel an attraction to search for other pathways of spirituality outside of the Jewish religion, or even within the Jewish religion but outside of one’s intended mode of divine service, for the sake of feeling a little more spiritual and connected to G-d, are making a grave mistake if they chase after these futile directions as they will never truly quench their thirst. The only method to quench one’s thirst to feel and experience unity with G-d is to follow his instructions as written in the Torah, and in the future merit to experience divine unity. Compromising on Torah values and instructions that are given in Shulchan Aruch, and one’s intended mode of service, out of claim that one is searching for greater spiritual experience, while being a seemingly good intention will get one nowhere and will simply divert him from the path to truly reach his goal. It seems, that this was the mistake of many Jews who began their career in Orthodox Jewry and began making subtle diversions from Torah law and philosophy for the sake of quenching this thirst, but simply ended up flying further away from the star that they are trying to reach and the lost home that they are trying to find, as it can only be reached through obedience to the G-d-given instructions of His Torah and Shulchan Aruch. This does not mean that one should not try to feel any feeling of attachment and longing for G-d, which is actually a Torah obligation and command and is the purpose of the divine service of prayer, rather it simply means that he should not fool himself to think that what he is feeling is the true experience of divine unity and ecstasy, as this can only be achieved in the world to come.

[1] Torah Or p. 16a; For more on this subject please refer to: Or Hatorah Bereishis 3 p. 530a, Devarim 6 p. 2230

[2] See Or Hatorah Devarim ibid that seemingly this novelty contradicts that which is explained in Likkutei Torah Vaeschanon 10b is a divine energy in Biyah is comprehensible

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