Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 202

How Do We Reach Bestowal to the Creator?

We can reach bestowal to the Creator through the small society we build. We bestow to our friends, the friends bestow to us, and together we form a group. Just as, in the end of correction, our souls are connected on the spiritual level, so we try to connect here and truly rise to that state.

By doing so, we attract surrounding light (Ohr Makif) into this world, and in a sense compel the Creator to increase the illumination, either through our own attraction of the surrounding light or through the light coming from the Creator in another way.

However, only our yearning to reach the purpose of creation neutralizes the Creator’s seemingly negative attitude toward the world. Then, the Creator does not need to awaken the world to correction through suffering.

No amount of activity based solely on direct relations between people will help, that is, bestowal to others with no connection to Godliness. Any form of bestowal on the level where a person currently exists, if disconnected from the Creator, is ineffective. We need to engage in bestowal to others only with the intention of reaching bestowal to the Creator.

“Love your neighbor as yourself” must be connected solely to correction. In the article “The Last Generation,” Baal HaSulam explains that this is the reason for the collapse of systems like those in Russia. They took the ideal of bestowing to others and detached it from the Creator. The same occurred in kibbutzim and other cooperative societies. They separated the ideal from its spiritual root and purpose, turning bestowal into a value in and of itself. This led to those systems’ complete collapse.

In other words, bestowal to others, when disconnected from bestowal to the Creator and from the purpose of creation, is out of alignment with the true goal and ultimately leads to destruction. What is the end of correction? It is a state in which every thought, action, and breath is connected to the purpose of creation. Anything disconnected from this purpose has no true existence and is considered lifeless. However, when we reach a state where everything in our life is connected to the end of correction, nothing limits us, and we attain a form of eternal life. The wisdom of Kabbalah is the method of learning how to reach this state.

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