Practical Kabbalah 7: Why did God create anything at all?

This is the seventh and final part of a series exploring the practical implications of kabbalistic concepts.
In this segment we ask the biggest questions of existence: If God is perfect then why did He need to create anything at all? If God is everything, but we're not God, then what are we? Is it possible to say God is lacking something?
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[@MD-do9ch]

Great discussion Rabbi !!! Maybe the best I’ve ever heard . I’m Muslim and studying Sufism. Central to his unity and wellness, which I think would be great for our Christian brothers to think more deeply about. God has unconditional love as you say therefore the highest good is to give us free will, and if we do not choose the right way, then we have committed evil to ourselves. If our Jewish brothers, except Jesus as the Messiah, and if a Christian brothers, except that Jesus was not God, then we will all unify be united and be One again, and therefore eliminate most of evil that is caused by this disunification that you describe.

[@ALavin-en1kr]

God dreamed us and all else into existence because he could and it was pleasant and entertaining. We will return to our home in God (consciousness) when our individualized show is over, which takes many lifetimes, and all will return when the whole show is over.

[@rabbimoshefriedman]

Well said, although the word "entertaining" somewhat trivializes our existence. The divine dream is deeply meaningful.

[@stussysinglet]

I don't personaly think God is literally some individual personal being or mind that has thoughts and a personality anything like a human but if it was and somehow always has and always will exist it makes sense to me it would be experiencing everything possible... endless forms and creativity, adventures, meaning, relationships pleasure and pain...

[@rabbimoshefriedman]

Yes! Beautiful!

[@robertjsmith]

The Tao that can be spoken,is not the eternal Tao.

[@sitasama]

hey, did you read the book "Wang" ? It speak about Tao (it s scifi) and is a real good book to read ;-)

[@robertjsmith]

@@sitasama I’ll check it out, thanks

[@umitteker8321]

with the knowledge u have im curious as a muslim what ur toughts are about whats happening in palastine?

[@rabbimoshefriedman]

I am a rabbi, not a historian, political scientist, or military expert. I have my opinions but I try only to speak publicly about the things I know well.

[@InterestedInDansk]

Osama Bin Laden planned many attacks some of which were on Muslims, the twin towers was a direct Act Of War by Al Quaida which operated across the Middle East thats why American forces reached as far as Afghanistan to destroy them. In working out the responsibility for the death toll you have to assess all the loss of life throughout this period as being the responsibility of the aggressor, just as in Gaza the combined Jewish and Palestinian deaths are the responsibility of Hamas. Cause and effect, had A not happened B would not have occurred. A Kings treasure is in his subjects but if a king does not respect his subjects he will not care for their ability to live in peace, they all know that in the blink of an eye he may sacrifice thousands of them on a whim. That reality is obvious in the Middle East where they all talk about God and then someone detonates a bomb in a mosque this means that Islam has no love of God or love for neighbour. Be honest why are they so keen to get into Europe, that they are dying in droves on the way.

[@umitteker8321]

I respect ur answer 😊 but i disagree that we need to be a historian or military expert about whats happening. Peace🙏

[@rabbimoshefriedman]

May we all see peace soon.

[@JohnSpencer90]

At 42:13 . The notion that God created us so that He could know himself experientially, suggests that God is curious about how he came into existence, and is incapable of using thought experiments to answer these types of questions.

[@rabbimoshefriedman]

You're close, but curiosity suggests lack of knowledge. The point of creation is not to perform experiments, but to perform experience! Dancers dance, painter paint, not out of curiosity, but for the sake of the experience itself.

[@JohnSpencer90]

@@rabbimoshefriedman I agree with the analogy of the painter or the dancers. However, God would have assimilated the creation experience after creating the angels. So, why continue to create humans? Unless the suggestion is that creating is like an opiate for God.

[@MD-do9ch]

We are God and everything is God, God is the pure truth in each of us, when we are impure is when we feel God is a separate entity . This is why Christians are flawed by worshiping Christ as God he was just pure a reflection of how we can all be not God manifested in person because God requires unity and monotheism. This is why Christ never claimed to be God and never demanded to be worshiped. He demanded us to follow his example and believing in monotheism and complete unity..

[@JohnSpencer90]

@@MD-do9ch when you say "God is everything" , Do you mean God is connected to everything , or, are you saying that God is literally everything including the trees , oceans, animals, the universe ... ? And how does that comport with the notion that God is a singular spiritual being?

[@MD-do9ch]

@@JohnSpencer90 I think if we focus on the central and most important message from the prophets of all time, monotheism, and if we demystify it, we will realize what you lectured, unification is most important point of worshiping the creator, and when we worship the creator as the united entirety of everything , we will then realize God is in everything and not a separate identity. the difference between God and us is that we do not penetrate everything , we are separate although we have God’s spirit in us. It’s as you said: “what ever this religion or mind set is that we think God is sitting somewhere else is wrong. “, I believe that’s why Jesus seemed like he was God, because he had attained full human purity of the truth so he was mistaken by idolators that he was God. To us humans God then is the natural laws that govern every mechanism in the universe, the truth in everything including trees. This is why I think people seek out nature, because it’s the rare opportunity that TRUTH attempts to communicates with us if we are pure enough to pick up the signals. So yes we all can reflect Godliness, but we can’t be God because we are not present everywhere all at once.

[@JohnSpencer90]

I enjoyed this lecture, primarily for its poetic format and allegorical presentation. However, I don't believe the presenter intended these as truth claims about God.

[@CheerupA1]

The answer is he did not

[@colinshaw3326]

Nowhere, has it been written, that God seemingly created man, nowhere. More like, ,gods from above. Ets mistaken as gods because of their tech.and advancements.humans are not smart creatures, but what's hidden from us, is far superior, in knowledge,and development.

[@InterestedInDansk]

God is the Lord of Creation it's stupid to say *He doesn't need us* therefore the afterlife leads to More creativity we are evolving spiritually as well as physically, this means that God's concern is for all his creatures whether that life is microscopic or macroscopic. I don't go with Kabbalah or Gematria because I want God to inform me not someone with an ego, even if that person doesn't have an ego the information is not from God

[@rabbimoshefriedman]

There's a difference between God needing us, and God wanting us or caring about us.

[@JohnSpencer90]

A perfect God cannot create imperfect entities. Humans are not perfect, therefore, God did not create humans.

[@nazukr]

It’s so stupid speak about god but nobody saw him!