Love of the created beings is a springboard to the final correction, to the love of the Creator, and to the purpose of creation as the result of our spiritual development.
We reach the love of the created beings as a result of our work in the corporeal world, in a group with friends, from the desire to get closer to them, so that in this way we can come to the love of the Creator.
By working on the love of friends, we receive a special force, a special upper light, that influences us, corrects us and gives birth to the love of others in us, which leads to the love of the Creator.
Otherwise, we would not be able to reach love of the Creator because He is concealed from us and is beyond our sensory organs. We are not able to imagine the Creator and build an attitude toward Him in any form. Only if we come closer to friends and through all the obstacles, failures, descents, and rejections and we continue to yearn for the love of others, then in this way we will learn what the love of the Creator is.
After all, this feeling is completely unavailable to us. Just as the Creator is separated from us, so love for Him is not felt in us in any way. If we feel some kind of love of the Creator in ourselves, then it is an egoistic feeling. It is not love at all, but egoism under the guise of love of the Creator.
But due to the fact that we work together in a group, after a long time and a great number of states that we go through, as a result, we begin to feel how important love of friends is to us. Then a special force, a special attitude becomes clothed in this love of friends, which is the love of the Creator, and so we receive His nature, come to love and unity, exit our egoism, and come closer to the purpose of our development.
All this we reach with the help of the upper force. If we use it correctly, the Creator will make all the necessary changes in us so that we finally reveal a special attitude to the Creator in ourselves called “love.”
Therefore it is written that there is self-love and there is love of the Creator, and there is a medium, which is love of others.
Through love of others we come to the love of the Creator. Therefore Rabbi Akiva said, “Love your neighbor as yourself is a great rule in the Torah.”
The Creator has arranged an intermediate station on the way for us, a state from which we can work. After all, love of others is at least to some extent understandable and palpable to our senses. If we make efforts to try to reach the love of friends, then in this way the upper light gradually influences us and leads us to genuine love of others, the ultimate goal and peak of which is the love of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/13/23, “From Love for the Created Beings to the Love for the Creator”
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To reveal the common Creator in the ten means to open our hearts, connect together, and discover that we are absolutely similar, equal, identical—everyone in everything. The revelation of such a commonality to us gives us a feeling of the Creator.
