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To know the Creator surrounding me, in me, and in others and to give back to him and others everything He has given me. I am nothing but dust in this world, so even what I am  is not sufficient, I am only sufficient enough to give what he has given me and not anything of what I think I accomplish in this world. Goal: To know Him intimately
Is the rest of nature/creation (still, vegetative, animal) part of the unified soul, even though they don’t have PIH’s?
There is no Freedom. The only freedom is in choosing to receive to give instead of receiving to receive. This can only be done with the help of the Reforming Light, when we connect with others who also have been awakened.
I believe I found the answer, but im not sure…
Rambam on Ki Tavo: Deut 28:9
Because a Torah mitzvah is to emmulate the Creator in His attributes of gracious, compassionate, benevolent
Sefer Hamitzvot, Positive Commanment #8
Is this correct?
This would keep us from “serving the other side”? And so a “good intention” to do evil is a false intention?
I can see this on a “most evil” level, but what about a lesser evil?
Example: a mother steals a loaf of bread to feed her starving children from a shop keeper who conducts his livelihood honestly to provide for his children and by being stolen from lessens his ability to feed his children. They go to court, who wins? We see here the intention is “good” in both parties, even though one is performing mitzvah honestly(good) and one is breaking mitzvah (evil).
What does the judge do?
He does not punish the “guilty” mother. He levies a tax on the community to pay for the loaf of bread that the mother stole. He punishes the community since had the community done what was right in emulating the good qualities of the Creator,the woman would not have had to steal.
So, even though the woman was not punished for doing evil which for a moment in time (the other side would say see, “you can do evil with a good intention”), the whole community was punished as being responsible by not emulating the qualities of the Creator, and thus overrides that false statement.
Am I correct in applying this on a “worldy” level and so it would apply in the Kabbalistic Spiritual level?
That the Kli (ego, evil, etc) is temporary and our final goal is to be totally immersed into the good attribute of Love.
So serving evil with a good intention does not lead to that final goal?
Question on the books that were mentioned in the videos:
There are a few versions of these online, which books do you recommend? for:
Sefer Raziel, Sefer Yetzirah, The Bahir, and The Tree of Life (Arizal)
If all that is created is from the Creator, both dark and Light, evil and good, left and right, and it is only our perception of these things. And our natural ego is a tool to bring us closer to Hashem, our ego being our desire for pleasure, and intent is all that matters. Then what is the difference for someone to say: “my intent now to follow my ego and enjoy all worldly pleasures, or do whatever pleases me for the sake of The Creator”. What if someone engages in what we see as evil, and he merely says, “I am doing the Will of the Creator for he made me so, and it too is bringing me closer to Him because now my intent to engage in evil is not for myself but for Him, since that too comes from Him, and my mission is to cause a resistance for you to desire to be closer to Him, which will in the end draw you closer to Him to overcome what I am presenting as evil”?
I heard somewhere that there was a sect of Judaism and maybe other “secret societies” that used a similar argument, and engaged in immoral behavior, is this true?
