- Myth: Nobody goes to a Kabbalah class expecting to actually understand anything.
Truth: Kabbalah is about the human mind grasping the ungraspable.
As in every discipline, we’re never able to grasp everything. Physicists admit they don’t grasp what reality really is. Mathematicians puzzle over what numbers really are.
Kabbalists embrace the mystery of G‑d’s oneness while at the same time demystifying as much as the human mind is capable of grasping. In the words of R. Schneur Zalman, we need to bring the divine as close as possible to the human mind, even though it can never truly fit.
The Chabad school provides potent metaphor for the divine back-end of the universe from elements of the human psyche. Will and desire become metaphors for the Infinite Light. Human consciousness and personality provides us insight into the sefirot and emanations. Articulate thought and speech provides metaphor for the act of creation.
The truth