Why is there a shell that grows before the fruit forms? Why is there darkness before light? “And there was darkness and there was light…”. Why did there need to be a Pharaoh, and the Israelites needed to be in a difficult exile, and only afterwards they were liberated?
Kabbalah explains, when G-d made the world it happened in a two tier process. Everything is made male and female. G-d designed lights of energy to be contained and function through their vessels. The problem is that the vessels weren’t big enough to contain the intense energy and the vessels busted with the intense light inside, falling very very low, and very very far from G-dly awareness.
Basically Kabbalah explains, the lower we see something in this world, the higher the source it emanates from. The only reason it was possible to travel so far and become the G-d forsaken and forbidden existence it turns into, is because of the very powerful light inside, that propelled the vessel, to that extremely lowly existence.
When the Israelites were in the G-dly depraved Egypt, they had a purpose for being exiled there, it was to liberate those sparks that fell so low. They did that by following the command of Moses and their ancestors as transmitted by G-d. Instead of a difficult place, presenting itself as an insurmountable hardship, it turned into a stepping stone of great opportunity only because they fulfilled this mission.
Every person came out of Egypt with no less than 90 donkeys laden with great possessions. The process of Egypt allowed them to eat the Manna from heaven and receive the Ten Commandments from G-d.
Pharaoh who was the King and the epitome of all the evil and darkness, from the same source as the Egypt he led, when the time came and there were no more sparks left to redeem, forced all the Israelites to leave Egypt.
Although there were many who wanted to remain behind, now that the struggle was over, so they could serve G-d in peace and tranquility, Pharaoh wouldn’t allow it. Pharaoh subconsciously understood, the purpose and goal was reached. It was time for everyone to move on.
This same concept, of the darkness itself being a tool for positive because of the much higher source from which it emanates, explains the incident when the Israelites reached a pool of water and complained to G-d the water was bitter. G-d commanded they take the branch of a very bitter tree and place it in the water, and the water became sweet!
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but in many areas, two negatives make a positive.
The combination of so much negativity sometimes brings out the source of this harshness, which is much higher than a regular positive, and therefore the branch of a bitter tree in a bitter body of water all of a sudden started to taste sweet.
The darkness that comes before light, because it is first in its source is really a greater and stronger hidden good than the light that follows. Not only does one appreciate the light after the experience of darkness and after a bad storm, even more so, the darkness is an exercise in itself of developing strength and sensitivity that could only come through the struggles and travails of darkness.
The shell comes first, because the resistance and toughness comes from a source much higher and stronger even than the fruit itself. Because it is there first, the fruit can grow protected by the shell cover.
The nature of the world as G-d created it, is that the seed must first rot in the ground and break its ego, it must humble itself in the darkness of the ground and that process prepares it to receive the blessings of the ground so it can bloom into this beautiful tree.
What appears as harshness and low has the hidden seeds and potential to bring a person to higher than if he/she wasn’t presented with this scenario.
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