In our world, all the work on attaining the greatness of the Creator, spiritual qualities, and the greatness of the goal takes place within the group. This must serve as the fuel for our advancement toward achieving the importance of bestowal and love. Accordingly, we will feel that we are changing, that various shifts and positive transformations are happening within us, that is, in the direction of bestowal.

At the same time, however, the left line begins to reveal itself in all kinds of disappointments, failures, and problems related to the group, the Creator, the teacher, and the method, in everything we associate with the attainment of the goal. And we grow the importance of spirituality, then we will also see Pharaoh, which are all the sinners revealed in the left line, from the smallest to the greatest, as described in the Torah: Balaam, Balak, and all the others.

Pharaoh, or the serpent, is the general name for all the sinners. All these egoistic forces are revealed in the left line. And the main thing that defines the character of these evil forces is pride, which makes them ask: “Why do you need spiritual work? Who is the Creator that I should obey Him?”

This is the enormous human pride rising up against the Creator and crying: “I will rule!” This is how it reveals itself to a person. And to the extent that he corrects it, he begins to see the greatness of the Creator and then understands that the Creator is great precisely in His humility. A person begins to value humility as the greatest quality because it signifies perfection.

However, humility is only the degree of Bina. And then, upon it, comes an addition—bestowal built upon humility. A person’s humility toward others manifests in his readiness to serve them. And then he attains “Love your neighbor as yourself”—true love.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/14/12, Writings of Baal HaSulam “In the Place Where You Find His Greatness”

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