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To discover a new perception of the concept of “love others precisely as you love yourself” is an exciting journey to be engaged in. I know that this is the sum of the commandments — Love the LORD with all your heart, soul, and mind — and love others as yourself. I love the idea that this is beyond what we “do” in the corporeal world, and drawing us toward changing/gaining our perception of the whole…as we practice meeting the need of the others we actually meet the need of the self—to be like the Creator — altruistic and bestowing—in a spiritual world perception that creates an intention to improve the state of self “by” improving the state of the others— which is actually the complete self. We are being called to understand — seeking one to stand in the “gap”. Ezekiel 22:30
In this story which is the friend ? Is it the ego or is the one giving the pillow to the other the ego ?
What does it mean that we begin by correcting the smallest desires first? How do we know what the smallest desire is? How do we identify the desires and rank them from smallest to greatest?
Thanks
Robert,
As you learn the laws of nature and you start working with others in your kabbalistic group, you start to discover places where you can increase in love. Let’s say for example you are in a group of 10 men and with one of them you see a place to increase love and with another one, just the sight of him annoys you, you can’t stand him, when he speaks you feel disgust, so let’s leave correcting that on the side for the time being and work with what we can for now. Later we will have more forces and more connection in the group and we will be able to move more and more to the side of holiness.
Seth@KabU
Hello,
Does >love your neighbour as yourself< means to feel other persons desire to be close to the Creator behind hers corporeal desiers? Actually to see that behind presons corporeal desires there is the desier to be closer to |Creator?
Kind Regards,
Rade
Rade,
I’m given a group who is with me on the path and we are all studying and drawing the reforming light together from the books and in the lessons and in our work between us I am always calibrating and measuring how I am judging and measuring all of them according to my ego, which is naturally how I am built and then where I can make efforts to rise above each time, to actually love.
By this we rise higher and higher.
Seth@KabU
Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Shimon were leaders of the Bar Kokhba revolt. How does this action they took fit within the precept of Love the Other as yourself? Is this why it is said, “Love your Friend”, and not “Love everyone”, meaning perhaps love those who are Israel, (that is those “reaching for or straight to the Creator”) while allowing one to revolt, even do harm if necessary to prevent those who seek to do harm to the Friends from doing so?
I recognize that on one hand the “revolt” or any such action was corporeal and on the other hand the intention of “what is your is yours and what is mine is yours” is internal, yet … This deserves some thoughtful discernment it would seem; please help untangle this seeming dichotomy. Shalom
Jay,
You are doing the right discernments.
On the one hand the law of life is to love the other as myself.
On the other hand someone is coming to kill me and it says if someone comes to kill me I must kill him first.And back and forth from the left and the right.
Trying to hold two opposites is correct.
Seth@KabU
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