Kabbalists On Love Of Others And Love Of The Creator, Part 6
Dear Friends, please ask questions about these passages from the great Kabbalists. The commentaries in brackets are mine.
Love of Others Is the Means to Attain the Love of the Creator
In general, there are only two commandments:
- between man and the Creator, and
- between man and man.
Yet they both aim to bring a person to the final purpose of Dvekut (adhesion) with the Creator. Furthermore, even the practical side in both of them is the same. It’s because when one performs something without any mixture of self-love, meaning without finding any benefit for himself, then one does not feel any difference whether one is working to love one’s friend or to love the Creator.
– Baal HaSulam, Matan Torah (The Giving of the Torah), Item 13
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