G-d In Exile

G_d yearns for us to return to the primordial state He established for us in His garden.

He shattered this system by removing His light that once bonded us in unity.

He created a force opposite to Him in order for us to experience the destructive quality of the self-centered, egoistic characteristics that causes so much suffering.

G_d waits for us to use our free will to plead for a way to turn our nature to match His.
With this holy desire He will need us only to change our intention towards others. Our intention becomes divine when we aim it at the benefit of others.

Then we can be together in a holy garden. We return to the state of one interconnected, interdependent network, now consciously striving to benefit the network. We earned this state through awareness and suffering.

Let's plead for strength to aim our intentions correctly before we feel more misery until we stand at the edge of an abyss to ruin. Reply

It is not a matter of letting H' in. H' is here and present at all times. The question is do you let H' in your life, in your everyday activities, in your thoughts, Or do you go around thinking that you have the power to do it all? It is not matter of say H' help me when we have a problem, but all the time. The reason it is argued that H' is banished in our time, it is because H' doesn't speak to us as with Moshe Rabbeinu, or the Prophets. Why? Kabbalah explains the notion of Tikkun and how in steps we can reunite to H' True. Yet, the answer can be even simpler: include H' in all of your steps. If we do this we will be nearer to H', and the world will be again H's garden. No question, we feel H remote, but this can be remedied by our own thoughtfulness and conscious behavior. Reply

Good 🌻 Morning!

I enjoy visiting botanical gardens. Its the perfect place to spend your day, and to see diversified plants, flowers, and trees from different countries and climates from around the world. I am a little bias when it comes to admiring New York Botanical Gardens [Brooklyn and the Bronx] because I think that they are the best! :D
Botanical Gardens are a great getaway to see the pristine beauty of GD's Good Earth, and to imagine what Eden must have been like. Visitors may meet GD there in the botanical garden(s) admiring gardeners cultivation to bring radiance, harmony, peace of mind, and joy to His children. We are GD's tiredlessly hard-working gardeners in His Vineyard; working to bring Tikkun Olam to the world, and to bring GD out of Exile Home incessantly.

Baruch HaShem,
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Who are they?
Hashem said, "I will blot out man, whom I created, from upon the face of the earth, from man to cattle to creeping thing, to the fowl of the heavens, for I regret that I made them." (Bereshit 6:7)
Hashem informed Noach as we can read in Bereshit: 6:13
"The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth has become full of robbery because of them, and behold I am destroying them from the earth"

Then we know what we should accomplish. Jew and non-Jew. Because it seems to me that the world seems to return to exactly that stage. Reply

As I see it, humans have turned to the body, its senses, and identified with that for ages. We can’t imagine detaching from it.
But bodies seem separate from all other bodies, and experience pain and pleasure, and many other pairs of opposites. We crave and resist, laugh and cry, love and hate, and so on, and identify with all, one way or another that is deemed desirable in our psychological makeup.
But the point of view of the Creator includes ALL at once. He is not pleading with us but, rather, is teaching each and every soul how to develop their character, so that we connect to our actuality. Him.
He has everything developing to final realization of our perfection. Don’t you want to be whole? If so, turn your focus within, ask yourself who/what you are? What is true, how do I connect with the creator? Reply

I have never heard of any human saying please do not “come back to My garden, to the place in which I found delight when it all began.”

They either don't believe or they say "what is taking so long and please return right now"
And THAT has been said billions and maybe trillions of times/ Reply

I can relate. I see wonderousness all around me and in people from a distance. But I don't know those people. And most of the people I connect with directly have no interest in that presence, even rabbis and others who say they are here to help people. They so often just exclude people they consider different from themselves. They consider G-d too different from themselves to even think about it. Maybe it's just all my imagination when I feel the presence. Reply

Bringing Him into every aspect, every challenge, every question...inviting Him into the very darkness we feel through prayer but also through trust in Him Reply

From the prison friends can visit and talk to you. You can send out some people with messages to the concerned. The prison cell can be like a garden wall. It has bars that add feature to it. There is some provision for light by candle or by the sky. There may be a ledge to add some home comfort. Some guests may acquaint and take presence to make use of a room with walls that may echo and may just have a rug and a chair and a table and a cupboard with homeware to have some rest in a small space. The garden give the fresh air that may be drawn in at dawn or at dusk in the still of the twilight. Reply

People are putting more faith in algorithms than in G-d because they no longer recognize their own divinity. Hence, there is nothing divine about their world, their universe or their life. I'm sure some shallow Silicon Valley tech will create a G-d app if they haven't already. Religious people will use it like Pokemon Go. Sorry to sound so cynical but I'm having a very difficult time reconciling people's desire for such a shallow and meaningless existence. Just take a closer look at your own garden or any garden for that matter and you will find G-d. Reply

Bringing G-d Almighty into the ordinary, into the mundane. That's the point here. Reply

I don't understand this essay. Gd cannot be banished. The Kotsker says, Where is Gd? Wherever we let Him in.

This is true. Try it. Open yourself. Invite Gd to come in. He comes in. You feel it. It feels wonderful. It feels like joy. So what's all this about Gd being banished? He's wherever we let him in. Reply

Ms Freedman 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. Reply

God in Exile 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. Reply

Satan 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. Reply

Too cool for school ! What a fabulous perspective of the oldest plot, tikkun olam. Thanks for that shot of inspiration. Reply

G-d in exile 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 Reply

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

The Creator amongst us - connecting in Eden 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. Reply

It is for us to decide 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. Reply