Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 188

Isn’t It More Logical to Reach Love of People From Love of the Creator?

According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, love of the Creator is the final degree of the development of the desire; it is the correction of the desire. The desire exists in double concealment, single concealment, reward and punishment, and love. Love is divided there into several parts, and eternal love is the greatest and the last.

That is, we need to reach the end of correction, and only from there understand that we must relate well to the friend we are here studying with. Otherwise, why did the Creator create this entire world and the friends and gather us together? The purpose of the existence of this world, which burdens the soul and weighs upon it, is to try to be in the end of correction despite the disturbances that the Creator currently gives us. This is essentially the whole matter of ascending the degrees. We are already in the end of correction even now, but do not feel it because our heart is shrouded by 125 coverings. These layers of concealment must be neutralized in order to feel the end of correction. How do those coverings become neutralized? It is through various means that are at our disposal.

Even the great righteous who are at the end of correction descend to this world when they must help the souls in this world, and they begin the same path anew, attain the end of correction in their lives, write books for us, help us, care for us, and teach us, all from the degree of this world. They are still connected to the end of correction within themselves, but they are here with us. In other words, all the coverings that were given to us so that we would not feel the end of correction are meant to lead us to overcome them so that we will relate to them and use them. The greater the disturbance, the greater the illumination it will later become.

The laws of nature in this world prove this to us: the action of resistance in electricity, the connection between cells in the body, and the connection between all things. The force of resistance is a positive force if it is used for a purpose. Only through it can something be felt and benefit be produced. When electricity passes through a wire with no resistance, it is not felt. If resistance is placed in it, benefit can be produced from it: heating, cooling, and the operation of various devices.

So it is also with the burden caused by the will to receive. Without it we would not feel the light. With zero coarseness nothing is felt. If there is coarseness in the sea of light, according to the coarseness, we will be able to feel the light passing through it, provided we let it pass. Therefore, the force of the screen is called “the force of resistance.” It operates exactly like a resistor that produces electrical resistance.

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