"Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah", item 13

Rav Yehuda Ashlag

(Kabbalah For The Student, p.570)

13) The thing is that as corporeal objects are separated from one another by remoteness of location,
spirituals are separated from each other by the disparity of form between them. This can be found in our
world, too. For example, when two people share similar views, they like each other and the remoteness of
location does not cause them to draw far from one another.
Conversely, when their views are far, they are hateful of each other, and proximity of location will not
bring them any closer. Thus, the disparity of form in their views removes them from each other, and the
proximity of form in their views brings them closer to each other. If, for example, one’s nature is the
complete opposite of another’s, they are as far from one another as the east from the west.
Similarly, all matters of nearness and remoteness, coupling and unity that unfold in spirituality are but
measures of disparity of form. They depart from one another according to their measure of disparity of
form, and become attached to one another according to their measure of equivalence of form.
Yet, you should understand that although the will to receive is a mandatory law in the creature, as it is the
essence of the creature and the proper Kli for reception of the goal of the Thought of Creation, it
nonetheless completely separates it from the Emanator. This is so because there is disparity of form to the
point of oppositeness between itself and the Emanator. This is because the Emanator is complete bestowal
without a shred of reception, and the creature is complete reception without a shred of bestowal. Thus,
there is no greater oppositeness of form than that. It therefore follows that this oppositeness of form
necessarily separates it from the Emanator.

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