This series deals with the concept of the creation of light which has many ramifications in the Kabbalistic literature. It refers basically to the statement that the creator "forms light and creates darkness, makes peace and creates evil ..."
According to Kabbalah, everything in the world is made up of two parts - that which we see and know, and that which we can't see and don't yet know. The concealed part - the spiritual source, essence and purpose behind every detail of creation - far exceeds the revealed. In our world, what we can't see is perceived as darkness, and what we can see as light. Darkness is a creation for it is an absence of light, the divine force creates it by making a vacuum within light. So in a sense, the light, by concealing the infinity beneath it, is actually darkness, and the darkness, which is too vast to be perceived, is actually light. Divinity has thus divided between light and darkness, because this is a world of mixtures and changes. In this world they are counter-changed, and we pass daily from one to another; that we may learn to expect the vicissitudes in the providence of the creator.
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