You Are Being Created Anew
The Root of Renewal in the Thought of Creation
In the beginning, all was one—a simple, infinite light filling all reality.
Creation was renewed in the moment the Creator’s will arose to bestow good upon His creations.
That “will to bestow good” gave birth to a new reality—the will to receive.
From here, the first distinction between Creator and created was born,
and this was the first renewal in the world.
According to the Ramchal:
“Renewal stems from the very essence of creation, for every created being is a novelty, something that was not before.”
Every renewal that comes after—in a person’s consciousness, in the soul, in life—is a continuation of that supernal moment of creation’s renewal. A person is renewed when they participate with the Creator in the act of becoming—that is, when they create, change, and rectify.
According to the Holy Zohar:
“A person is renewed every day, for every day there is renewal in the world.”
The entire world is renewed in every moment, because the divine light is always flowing.
If a person is cleaving to the light, they are renewed along with it.
But when a person clings to old forms, they are cut off from the flow and become “old.”
Renewal, according to the Zohar, is the life force of the light clothing itself in a new vessel—in the more rectified vessel of a person’s consciousness. This is the secret of “new souls”—not in the sense of a different soul, but the expansion of the vessel to receive new light.
According to the Tanya:
The Baal Shem Tov and his student, the Alter Rebbe, teach that renewal is the very essence of the service of God. The righteous resemble their Creator: just as He, in His goodness, renews the act of creation each day, always, so too are they renewed in their service.
A person is required to live from a constant awareness of beginning.
Not from a place of “I already know,”
but from “I am being created anew right now.”
This is the consciousness of Binah (understanding), which is the root of Yom Kippur—a place where there is no time, only perpetual renewal.
According to Baal HaSulam:
Baal HaSulam explains that renewal stems from a fixed spiritual law:
“Absence is a necessity for existence.”
Meaning, in order for a new light to be revealed, the old form must be nullified.
The suffering, the disappearances, the deconstructions—they are the womb of renewal.
The person who is renewed is one who agrees to “die” in every moment from the old within them, in order to live the next divine form.
This is the process of the “completion of the rectification” (gemar ha’tikkun)—
not an end,
but an eternal beginning.
The renewal of a person is the constant birth of the Divine within human consciousness.
Mashiach is the life-giving force of renewal, the “spirit of God hovering over the waters”—the spirit that moves all of creation to advance to the next stage in love, in light, and in truth.
The renewed person is the “Mashiach” person.
They are not subject to habits.
They do not operate from fear.
They do not seek “to be as they were” or what “used to be.”
Rather, they breathe new life from the Infinite every day.
Reflect:
Where in your life are you clinging to an old form or identity (”I already know”), instead of opening to the awareness that you are being created anew right now?
Can you look at a challenge or a painful “absence” in your life as the necessary womb for something new to be born?
What would it feel like to live today not from habit or fear of the past, but by breathing new life from the Infinite in each moment?
I’d love to hear what this stirs in you.