Kabbalists On The Torah And Commandments, Part 45

Dr. Michael LaitmanDear Friends, please ask questions about these passages from the great Kabbalists. The commentaries in brackets are mine.

Only the Light in the Torah Reforms the Person

Our sages said, “I have created the evil inclination, I have created the Torah as a spice” (Babba Batra, 16). The matter of the spice is as our sages said, “If only they left Me and kept My Torah, the Light would reform them” (Yerushalmi, Hagiga, 6b). Thus, that there is a power in the Torah to reform a person, referring to the evil within man, meaning to make the will to receive be in order to bestow.
– Rabash, The Rungs of the Ladder, “Man Is Created in the Torah”

We see that the purpose of creating the worlds and the souls was entirely with one intention: to correct everything to be in order to bestow, which is called Dvekut [adhesion], “equivalence of form.” The Creator said about the Torah, “I have created the evil inclination, I have created the spice.” In other words, after a person receives the Torah as a spice [medicine], the evil inclination [egoism] is corrected to being in order to bestow, as written in The Zohar, “The angel of death [egoism] is to become a holy angel [that of love].”
– Rabash, The Rungs of the Ladder, “What Is Torah and Work on the Path of the Creator”

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One Comment

  1. In response to the article:
    Is this like a neutralization process where the spice of the Torah is given to offset the evil? the angel of love offsets the angel of death? Similar to the light dispelling darkness just by it’s presence, yet if the light leaves will the darkness return? Is the darkness ultimately done away with completely at the final correction in order to be equal with the Creator. Is reception at all a part of the final correction…and does the Creator receive from us at all if we have to receive to bestow and ultimately just bestow. Is the Creator the perfect example of receiving from us just to help us to learn to bestow. He needs nothing from us or does he, but only accepts it just to bestow? Or is this something we know not of as of yet?

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