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It only seems that way, that people don’t love themselves enough. It’s precisely intense self-love in the moment, but for me, in the desire I am right now, to receive maximally, and not to care for some future state, someone’s predictions about what might be good later or something like that. Now, exactly in this later, is the ego, the Klipa that gives me this sense of time, that I can always do what I need to do, later. It’s program is to ensure I’m eaten by worms before I attain spirituality, one day at a time, one moment at a time, until the dirt piles are thrown on my coffin. For now, I’m fine, busied with this and that. Will tomorrow be different? It’ll be the same, for different reasons.
I don’t know how old you are, but if you met yourself 20 years ago, 30 years ago…or when you’re 90 and look back on everything, how much do you think you’ll identify with the girl you were at age 5, 15, 35? I know what you want to ask, but you see that even in the span of this life, many different desires sit in the drivers seat for a time.
Do you have a ten? If not, you’ll get one in the graduate program. For the minimum Equivalence of Form with the Upper Light, especially once one has passed the initial phase of absorbing the materials (in which phase he should be installing them on his “hard drive” as much as possible), then this installation needs to be expressed outwardly, in a group of ten. Otherwise how would one feel the system he is in? That is, by simulating love and bestowal toward such a background, he is nevertheless getting into some degree of Equivalence with the Creator. Only in this Equivalence is there some Creator to discuss. He never appeared in some other way than by one already being in some Equivalence with Him. Then, in that, you meet Him, feel Him, and find out if He loves you, if He loves humanity. Like I finally felt I understood my father when I had kids, by your Equivalence of Form with Him, you understand Him, that all He ever did was for you.
Hi Luke,
Sorry, there was some confusion on our end, I can answer. It’s true, Judaism is primarily practiced in a way that the main thing is to do actions from morning until night. It’s less about belief than other religions. You do all these actions, but do you also believe such and such? I suppose I believe that. But belief is not the main thing, in practice. And beyond believing, that I should also have specific intentions in my actions — let alone that the Upper World should open up… no one is even claiming such things, so I won’t upset anyone by saying that it won’t happen like that. The maximum claim is that in the next world (Olam HaBa) maybe it will be good for you if you do all the right actions — and in the religious lexicon that means after you die biologically. That’s religion. If it’s Judaism, the main thing is the actions; in other religions, it’s usually less about actions and more about belief. And in Kabbalah, neither will help.
Kabbalah is the hidden wisdom, the wisdom of intentions, which is why Kabbalists cleaned the language of all external wrappings. So, if you have such and such objects in the Upper World, maybe their mechanisms were expressed by something like you take the Tefillin and wrap in around your hand and so on, so Kabbalists since the 1500s started explaining that that’s talking about the actions of Zeir Anpin in the world of Atzilut, etc. All the physical Mitzvot (commandments) only come as a reminder that it is necessary to carry out internal acts of correction. If someone wants to do them, knows how, and will use them as reminders about the intentions, by all means, go ahead. He also needs to learn what the intentions are, but no one is stopping anyone from also doing their customs if they wish.
In short, here we learn the intentions that should be behind all our actions. And in general, we can go toward the spiritual goal like early Kabbalists, before the establishment of these “traditions,” which are behaviors in our world that are identical to the higher correction that everyone must perform in his 613 desires, aiming them at “love the other as yourself.” Achieve contact with the Upper World, like Abraham, for example, and then see if the Creator has anything else for you.
