Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 66

How, Then, Is a Connection Established Between Corporeal Actions and the Spiritual World?

The general desire to receive—humanity’s collective desire—has reached a level where fragments of the soul began descending from above. In other words, the desire to receive embedded in humanity started becoming illuminated by light from above in order to scrutinize it. When this light shines, a point in the heart emerges.

This point first appeared in Abraham, who was the first to discover the Creator. From him, the lineage of students and the concept of a group emerged. Without Abraham’s revelation, humanity would have continued existing without spiritual scrutiny and advancing according to the general timeline of the universe and reality.

From Abraham onward, people started having free choice. With the illumination of the light, we could start enabling actions from ourselves. What actions could we do? Actions that facilitate connection between souls. We thus need someone close to us, a friend we can admire and emulate. We cannot rely solely on someone distant from us.

The only free choice we have is to take an additional deficiency from someone equal to us. This choice is the same one that Abraham made in his time. When the Creator told him, “I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars of the sky” and “Your descendants will be strangers in a land not their own,” He was essentially providing conditions for free choice. For someone to be inspired by another, to take a desire from them, the role of a single Kabbalist was replaced by a group of close-knit individuals, a group of Kabbalists called “Jews” or “Hebrews,” who settled in the Land of Israel.

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