Question: What is the connection between the spiritual root of love and its earthly branch?

Answer: The earthly branch represents my one-sided, egoistic attitude toward myself, when I, like a dog, sense with my nose where I can still enjoy myself, and only this pulls me forward.

Comment: A person is given the concept of “first love” when they think only about the object of their affection.

My Response: That is, I am attracted by such great pleasure that I cannot think of anything else: not about food, not about walks, not about studies, not about sports. This is the egoistic development of hormones.

I am becoming a man, I feel hormonal surges, I do not understand what it is or how to realize them. I am tormented by vague guesses, and I am drawn to the object of their realization. That is all. What kind of love is this?

I told you how my mother, a doctor by training, explained to me how she used hormonal injections to make people love. The same thing is here. I won’t mock this feeling. On the contrary, it develops us greatly at a young age, when the transition from adolescence to youth occurs. This is a very useful quality, but it is purely egoistic.

Question: Isn’t there a purpose to this? Nature?

Answer: Of course, nature has a plan to further develop our egoism.

Question: Is this a good condition?

Answer: Any development is good, but when egoism develops completely, it must be corrected somehow. The complete physiological development of a person typically ends by the age of 18 to 22. However, sometimes it can continue further because under the influence of the environment, all sorts of other drives arise.

Basically, the set of human desires includes food, sex, family, wealth, fame, and knowledge; there are just six basic properties in which our ego develops. There is nothing else here.

I constantly consider what is more profitable for me and what I love more. If knowledge prevails, then I can abandon everything else. I immerse myself in science and it completely absorbs me. This is also love.

That is, love is a desire for fulfillment that is inherent in every person.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/6/2017, “True Love”

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