Question: Who is called an idol worshipper in Kabbalah?

Answer: You! Because every minute, even without sensing it, you are sculpting idols right out of thin air.

If you do not connect everything that happens to you with the one force called “One, Unified, and Unique,” if you do not always relate these events back to a single cause and regard everything else (save it) merely as manifestations of that one force, then you are engaged in idol worship.

Suppose your wife says something unpleasant to you. You must understand that this came from the Creator, and she is only a puppet through whom the Creator demonstrates His attitude toward you.

But if you attribute everything to her, you are “making an idol.” You should relate it to her, and through her to the Creator. There must be two here.

One should understand that the director of this entire play is the Creator, and that in this way He presents Himself to us precisely so that we may unite all His various and even opposite manifestations into one form, into one source, the Creator.

But this is possible only on condition that you use the entire world in order to unite it within your perception into one whole and connect it to a single source.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/6/9, Baal HaSulam “Characteristics of the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

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