It would seem what the connection between love for one’s neighbor and love for the Creator is? But it only seems to us that we understand what it means to “love one’s neighbor as oneself.” In fact, it is not the kind of love we imagine.
In this world, everyone talks about loving people, but on an animal level. And we see that nothing comes of it except hate. If love for creatures follows from the desire to achieve love for the Creator through it, then it will be completely different. It will no longer lead to mistakes, to Nazi regimes, or to dictatorships under the guise of socialism and communism.
After all, love for the Creator obliges us to study the laws of nature and obey them. We will understand that there is someone above us controlling us, and according to His command, we will come to love our creations, and not because we wanted to do so out of a “kind heart.” This is the whole reason for Nazism, Socialism, etc.
To love one’s neighbor as oneself means to stop feeling that I am more important than any other person. For me, everyone becomes equally important as one body. Love for the Creator obliges me to come to such love for my neighbor otherwise, it will be Nazism.
Love for one’s neighbor must be of a spiritual level, otherwise it will result in hatred of people. After all, by loving some people, I will hate others even more.
Loving my neighbor as myself means giving to my neighbor the way I would give to myself if I were the most selfish person. If the main thing for me is to come to love the Creator, then I perceive love for creatures as a means.
Therefore, I understand that the love of creation has spiritual value, the value of the Creator. The Creator hides in the creations, which become His vestments and tools for comprehending the Creator. If I comprehend their desires, thoughts, and aspirations, then through them I can reveal the Creator, not in any other way.
There is no other way to reveal the Creator except through love for the creatures. It is only through people that I reveal Him.
It would be nice to write a book that talks about such love. It is impossible to imagine how much we do not feel and do not understand what love for creation is. It is the exact opposite of what we think. People are tired of listening to conversations about how to love each other. Everyone talks about loving people: all religions, the whole world. Of all of them, Ahmadinejad has succeeded the most in this.
Love is a tool for achieving unity, that is, the property of “One, singular, and only.” Our goal is to achieve the disclosure of the essence of this One within the union of broken fragments that are distant and hate each other. And love is the means to achieve that One thing.
When we come together in one soul, we get a huge desire that is 620 times more than what was originally created. It combines all love and all hate, all selfishness and all holiness, and we give all this to the Creator for His enjoyment.
Spiritual love is a union, but for the sake of union with the Creator, that is, in order to give Him a vessel for His disclosure. If you talk about such love, you would get the most fascinating novel. At least give people a hint of spiritual feelings of unity. How else can you touch their feelings because it is not with the same dry formulas as in mathematics: light / Kli / screen.
Einstein wrote the formula: e= mc2, and who is impressed by it? No one still understands his theory of relativity. That is why it is so important to write a book about love, which is supposedly born in this world, but in fact does not relate to it at all.
Love of creation is a law of nature. A Kabbalist feels himself in the integral system of nature, encompassing all reality, all worlds, except for the Creator Himself, and therefore it is natural for him to fulfill this law. He sees the world from one end to the other, and therefore understands that in the end everyone will be obliged to join the integral system of nature.
Nowadays, there is a rapid acceleration of human development. Once again, we are on the verge of a large, multifaceted crisis that may manifest itself piecemeal in different areas of the world, or it may unfold everywhere at once because the world is interconnected.
And then it will become clear to everyone what is happening. A person learns the laws of nature only through blows, then he immediately clutches his head not knowing what to do: suddenly a hurricane hits him, extreme cold or heat, etc. From year to year, we see that nature is increasingly out of balance due to the fact that we develop selfishly, but do not develop connections between us that would correspond to our development.
In the end, everything must unite as it was originally in the system of Adam HaRishon before the split, both in spiritual form and in material form. Everyone should perceive their ten as a mini-universe. There is nothing but the ten: I have ten Sefirot, HaVaYaH, and the Creator, the animating force that sustains existence. And everything else is related to maintaining my animal body.
The main thing is the ten. If I try to realize in it everything that the powers of the Creator require of me, then I must succeed.
Just as the Torah talks about the spiritual world in allegorical language, in the form of a historical story, so a book about spiritual love can be built on an ordinary story about a couple of lovers: a guy and a girl. Such an example will touch every heart because everyone knows this feeling.
Gradually, from material love and hate, the book will lead to the realization that it is not really about that, but about a much higher relationship built on giving. It will tell you how this loving couple grows and rises.
This will be understandable and close to the reader. He will be carried away by this adventure and will empathize with their mutual desire to raise their love to a level where it will not depend on the body, on selfish calculations.
From simple psychology, they will come to a separation from themselves, and this is already spiritual, where new sensations and new phenomena begin. In this way, a person will be sensorially involved in a spiritual experience.
We are all human beings and we are not strangers to material relationships. And from this material love, which is understandable to everyone, you can gradually climb up. It will be interesting and fascinating for people because this is no longer an abstract idea, but is connected with hormones, with the experiences of this world, and gradually the book will raise the reader to higher levels. This will happen naturally.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/26/19, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Writings of the Last Generation”
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