Love Of The Creator: A Development Marathon Finale
Question: What does the law of loving the other give us?
Answer: By means of loving the other we can reach love of the Creator, which is the purpose for which we begin our development. The purpose of creation is to reach love of the Creator.
The Creator initially had a perfect love of the creature according to His nature of good that does good. Bringing the creature to this goodness means bringing it to the point of adhesion with the Creator.
It turns out that love of the Creator is the purpose of our development, its final point. It is reached through keeping the 612 commandments (various preparations in our 612 egoistic desires in order to turn them toward bestowal), which are necessary to reach the last, 613th commandment of love and bestowal toward each other.
Each rule consists of a connection in a variety of details. Following the example of the “holy group,” that is, the society built on the laws of bestowal and consisting of a few people united by one goal, our aim is to reach a higher purpose through giving to each other.
Giving in itself is not a purpose. If we gather together only to give to each other, we build an egoistic formation by enjoying each other. Such a union is advantageous to me because ten of us can reach more fulfillment than one. Everyone will receive pleasure from the other nine.
However, such bestowal doesn’t take us out of the egoistic law of receiving for oneself. Only if we bestow upon each other in order to bestow upon the Creator can we be called a holy group that wants to reach bestowal. Otherwise, we would build an egoistic society in order to mutually profit from each other.
A perfect spiritual structure should consist of not less than ten people, according to the ten Sefirot of a spiritual body. Then bestowal of one toward the other will bring us to bestowal toward the Creator since together, we want to become the full ten Sefirot.
Malchut is included in the first nine Sefirot (Tet Rishonot). Thus, ten Sefirot of bestowal (ten Sefirot of the Direct Light) are formed. And the first nine Sefirot get included into Malchut and form ten receiving Sefirot (ten Sefirot of the Reflected Light). Thus, we come to mutual bestowal. The need for such an action gives us the right to receive the power, the fulfillment from Above, and is called a prayer.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/15/2011, Writings of Rabash
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As far I understand a group must contain 10 people(Points in the heart).
If I am connecting virtually how do I make this connection s real and how do I benefit from it the attainment of the goal(Love of the creator).
Right now I live among friends(Physically) who aspire for spirituality but not knowing anything about the wisdom of Kabbalah and I can’t tell them about the wisdom for I know how religious they are though some see me being interested in the wisdom of kabbalah,reading attending convention virtually,…
These ones may be are waiting to see me changing my behaviour but I kept my lifestyle with no outside impression of spirituality.
How can I improve my relationship to the holy group in that case?