Let My People Know

"The process of creation is therefore one of concealment"

 

The wonder of creation is not that being was brought out of nothingness but rather that the divine light of Ein Sof remains concealed and constricted. 

The wonder of creation is that in a world that receives its entire being from God, not only at the original moment of creation but at every moment, we could think that we are self-made. 

In the words of Pharaoh, "The Nile is mine, and I have created myself." 

The process of creation is therefore one of concealment, in which we created beings do not realize that essentially "there is no other than He" but whose primary experience is each his own "I" and the seeming existence of the world around us.

–Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
 
From Opening the Tanya by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz