6. G‑d In Exile

I find your comment very interesting. You say we know where satan is but that he does not have a place. I think that he has no power and that is his banishment. He appears to have power when we doubt G_d for then we act in confusion and panic and think that evil has power. In fact it seems to me that G_d uses even satan to serve His ends to teach us, when we will not look up to G_d. Yes people know how to avoid the place where he is - he is doubt. If we have faith we fill all places, as we are created in His image and He is the place where everything is. Whatever a person's life may throw at them if they will have the patience to know that G_d is showing them something, not to beat oneself up about, but to help them grow then all things are bearable in the end.

Angels don't have free choice only human beings have free choice.We can apply knowlege(Daat) throug the Kabbala.We can subdue evil and transformed in good with our actions.

My understanding is that Satan is an angel of G-d. Like all angels Satan has only one mission. It is to entice our Evil Inclination to do wrong. Like the other angels, Satan does not have Free Choice. On the other hand, we do have Free Choice and can use that to subdue our Evil Inclination to do good. Another interesting angel is the Angel of Death. It is not a bad angel. It has its mission as accorded by G-d.

What a fabulous perspective of the oldest plot, tikkun olam. Thanks for that shot of inspiration.

G-d did banish Adam and Eve (because every action has a consequence) however Adam and Eve banished G-d the moment they sinned against Him. Sad story

Thank you - all that you do for us out here is Heaven sent.

The one soul shattered - we lost the sensation of other. The force of connection between us, the Creator, was banished.

Our work is to reconnect the broken sparks - to rise above the hatred, repulsion and rejection of others. Then the current flows through us again. The Creator is that Life-Force, between us. G_d is then in us and we are in Him - This is the Garden of Eden.

I think we all yearn for the days of old when it all began. Well, maybe not all of us there are some that declare "we have been living perfectly well without God". In spite of all this rebellious attitude the Lord behaves like the Psalmist declares: "The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and of great kindness" Tehillim/Psalms 145,8. It is for us to decide -to follow the Torah's guidance or... to rebel and follow some other supernal being.

According to the Torah in Genesis God banished Adan and Eve into exile.

I like this short essay. I think people often banish G-d from their thoughts because His wishes are inconvenient or because some of us have been taught that we are unworthy to commune with Him. Peeling away the layers of misunderstanding and self deprecation we find that after all He never left us but patiently waited, waits and is waiting for us to return - always. As usual thank you Rabbi Freeman