Kabbalists On Love Of Others And Love Of The Creator, Part 7

Dr. Michael LaitmanDear Friends, please ask questions about these passages from the great Kabbalists. The commentaries in brackets are mine.

Love of Others Is the Means to Attain the Love of the Creator

There is no other cure for humanity but the acceptance of the commandment of the upper governance: bestowal upon others for the sake of the Creator, which consists of two stages:

  1. “Love thy friend as thyself,” which…means that the measure of work to bestow upon others for the happiness of society should be no less than the measure imprinted in man to care for his own needs.
  2. “And you shall love the Creator with all thy heart and soul….” This is the goal that must be before everyone’s eyes when laboring for one’s friend’s needs. This means that he labors and toils only to be liked by the Creator.
    – Baal HaSulam, “The Peace”
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Kabbalists On Love Of Others And Love Of The Creator, Part 6
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Kabbalists On Love Of Others And Love Of The Creator, Part 4

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  1. Wouldn’t “all your heart” be all points in the heart, and “all your soul” also be the group? What is the difference in nuance — Is the soul a spiritually higher, more complete state than the heart? Then too, in the complete reading of the Shma (Hear of Israel), what then is “and all your might”?

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