From the book by Yehuda Berg, The Power of Kabbalah:
“When we look into the world of the ninety-nine percent, we discover four key qualities of the Light that we have inherited and that we must express in our world in order to remove the Bread of Shame.
These are:
To be the cause
To be the Creator
To control
To share
In our physical world, these four qualities merge into one… PROACTIVITY!
And all the characteristics of the Vessel, that is, of humanity, can be expressed in a single word:
REACTIVITY!
Reactivity means:
To be the effect
To be the Created
To be controlled
To receive
… Ninety-nine percent of our behavior is reactive. But this is the original design. Do not forget that our essence is the desire to receive fulfillment.
Simply put, the task of the Vessel is to transform from a reactive into a proactive force, which means that…
This is the ultimate goal of life
The reason for our existence
The meaning of our life
The path home
The path to infinite fulfillment
The secret of removing the Bread of Shame and expressing our divine DNA
The true definition of spiritual transformation.
Thus we reveal the Fourth Principle of Kabbalah:
The purpose of life is spiritual transformation from reactivity to proactivity.
… When we react in our lives, whether with anger or with pleasure, the energy we feel is a dangerous direct connection with the world of the ninety-nine percent. This is the Light that the Vessel received first in the World of Infinity. This Light causes an explosion of energy within us. A flood of pleasure. A sense of fulfillment. At the same time, however, it was precisely this initial flash of Light that gave rise to the Bread of Shame! The Vessel rejected this Light because it had been received in a reactive way.
When our behavior is reactive, we deny our innate divine essence. Our soul reenacts the primordial resistance and stops the flow of the Light. A spiritual version of the Big Bang is set in motion… The soul is forced to reenact the act of Resistance and to stop access to the Light in order to protect itself from the Bread of Shame. The final result is Darkness.”*
–Yehuda Berg, The Power of Kabbalah
∗Note: The quoted passages are translated from Bulgarian.
