Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 281

What Is the Connection Between Eating or Even Baser Animate Pleasures and the Purpose of Creation?

If we believe, meaning that we accept and agree in advance, that there is a connection between these phenomena, and we want to discover it, if we are seeking the connection between everything that was created, done, and takes place in order to prove that they are all intended to bring us to the purpose of creation, if this is our goal, we will find a connection between each and every phenomena. We only discover this connection between everything.

If at every moment we connect our state, the reason for it, the state itself, and its outcome to the purpose of creation, this is called: “Israel, the Creator, and the Torah are one.” Then we are on the right path. Other than this, we have no trouble or problem at any given moment. This is what is written.

Of course, there are additional troubles and problems surrounding this central matter, but the question is whether we understand that all the problems are intended to bring us to this unification, or whether we believe that these problems and troubles should be solved without connection to the unification, in which case we are called “those who serve other gods.” It is as though there is someone else governing the world besides the Creator, and it was not He who gave me each and every state in order to create unification through it. This is called “making unifications.”

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