An Easy Path Together With The Light, Part 1
Kabbalists have prepared for us an easy and simple way of attracting the Light that Reforms, in contrast to what used to be before.
We find and see in the words of the sages of the Talmud that they have made the path of Torah easier for us than the sages of the Mishnah. This is because they said, “One should always practice the Torah and Mitzvot (commandments), even Lo Lishma (for oneself), and from Lo Lishma he will come to Lishma (for the sake of bestowal), because the Light in it reforms him.”
Thus, they have provided us with a new means instead of the penance presented in the above mentioned Mishnah, Avot: the “Light in the Torah.” It bears sufficient power to reform one and bring him to practice Torah and Mitzvot Lishma.
– Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Item 11
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