Kabbalists On The Torah And Commandments, Part 17
Dear Friends, please ask questions about these passages from the great Kabbalists. The commentaries in brackets are mine.
The Torah Develops the Recognition of Evil in a Person
Accordingly, what should one do in order to come to love the Creator? For that purpose we are granted the remedy [Segula] of engaging in Torah and Mitzvot [Kabbalah] for the Light in it reforms. There is Light there, which lets one feel the severity of the state of separation. And slowly, as one intends to acquire the Light of Torah, hatred for separation is created in him. He begins to feel the reason that causes him and his soul to be separated and far from the Creator. [Only the inner part of Torah, Kabbalah, is capable of attracting the Light that Reforms. Then a person will sense that he is an egoist and will desire correction.]
– Baal HaSulam, Shamati, Article #34, “The Profit of a Land”
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What causes one and his soul to be separated from the creator? Is it a lack of unity with the surroundings? The fact that we are so terrified in trying to survive that we can’t but focus on ourselves over others?