Enter a darkened room and light a match, and you’ve done away with darkness. It is that simple. The two do not appear together. Light is not merely the absence of darkness, nor is darkness simply the absence of light. Darkness is a very potent cosmic energy force as the Zohar39 makes clear: “In the beginning, in the Ein Sof, there was no coloring of any kind whatsoever. Neither white, neither black, neither green, neither red. No coloring whatsoever.” We learn from the Zohar that each color represents an internal energy force, and this includes black.
