Loving our neighbor and loving God are one and the same.
God is the general force of nature, a single force of love and bestowal. Noting the equivalent value of God and nature, Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) describes that in Gematria, the word for โGodโ ("๐๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฎ") equals the word for โNatureโ ("๐๐ข๐๐ฆ๐ท๐ข").
Upon this fundamental force that governs everything, God, there is another, opposite force that He createdโreception.
Why did God do that? It is so that there will be someone outside of Himself, and that this "someone," who is defined as the desire to receive, will become like God, Nature, or the Creator: giving and loving. That is the greatest delight that is available to man, and God wishes man to enjoy no less than the ultimate sensation of perfection. It is what we need to reach.
We, human beingsโnot the still, vegetative, or animate levels of nature, but specifically us humansโhave a flawed and corrupt sense of others. We wish to exploit them, and we need to shift from this flawed and corrupt perception of others to a positive feeling toward them. In other words, we need to start correcting ourselves.
First, we need to discover how flawed and corrupt we really are. By doing so, such a revelation will continually lead to our correction, a change of ourselves to resemble the general force of bestowal called "God," โNature,โ or "the Creator."
That is what it means to come closer to God. We can do so at any given moment by examining whether we are aligned with His quality of love and bestowal, i.e., whether we have an attitude of pure love and bestowal to others.
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๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ข๐ก๐๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ด๐ป ๐ง๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฌ๐ผ๐'๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐น๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ผ๐ฑ
Loving our neighbor and loving God are one and the same.
God is the general force of nature, a single force of love and bestowal. Noting the equivalent value of God and nature, Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) describes that in Gematria, the word for โGodโ ("๐๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฎ") equals the word for โNatureโ ("๐๐ข๐๐ฆ๐ท๐ข").
Upon this fundamental force that governs everything, God, there is another, opposite force that He createdโreception.
Why did God do that? It is so that there will be someone outside of Himself, and that this "someone," who is defined as the desire to receive, will become like God, Nature, or the Creator: giving and loving. That is the greatest delight that is available to man, and God wishes man to enjoy no less than the ultimate sensation of perfection. It is what we need to reach.
We, human beingsโnot the still, vegetative, or animate levels of nature, but specifically us humansโhave a flawed and corrupt sense of others. We wish to exploit them, and we need to shift from this flawed and corrupt perception of others to a positive feeling toward them. In other words, we need to start correcting ourselves.
First, we need to discover how flawed and corrupt we really are. By doing so, such a revelation will continually lead to our correction, a change of ourselves to resemble the general force of bestowal called "God," โNature,โ or "the Creator."
That is what it means to come closer to God. We can do so at any given moment by examining whether we are aligned with His quality of love and bestowal, i.e., whether we have an attitude of pure love and bestowal to others.
๐ง๐ผ ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ป ๐บ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ผ๐๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐น๐ฎ๐ต, ๐ท๐ผ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฎ ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ป๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฏ๐จ
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