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The Mitzvot are like recipes, very specific internal actions. But until all that is revealed, it’s more than enough to work toward love of friends with the expectation for the Light to work. Imagine your sweet toddler tries to do something nice for you from the bottom of her heart, because she loves her mommy. Does it matter exactly how and what she did? Try doing everything for the friends and Creator, with the expectation in the heart for the Light to help, and see what response you get.
No, the Creator relates to the innovation, which is the Will to Receive – meaning He has no essence to speak of that is detached from His Creation, being the Will to Receive. As “There is no Light without a Kli,” any discussion of the Creator detached from His Creation is considered out of bounds, as all the wisdom of Kabbalah is written by Created Beings, Kabbalists, who, although they attained high degrees of Equivalence with Him, nevertheless attained it from their Kli (vessel) reaching Equivalence with Him. He is called “Come and See” [Bo u Ray, Creator], meaning come with your corrected Kli and inside it reveal Him through being Equivalent with Him in your properties. This is the Creator Baal HaSulam writes about.
The same concepts that seem ‘religious’ could’ve been expressed only in terms of forces, Sefirot – like physics. But the Four Languages of spiritual expression are not artificial languages, but relate to the four levels of the soul, and there’s benefit to us learning to move as freely between them as Baal HaSulam and Rabash do in their writings.
His candle is the spark of the Creator, his Point in the Heart. We need to show each other how much we’re helping all the friends to reach the goal. You’re right, we have to locate this candle, and sort it; when we sort our Point in the Heart from our other, contrasting desires, we can deliver it to the friends.
It’s an integral system where every breath affects everyone else. We can’t see it because then it would be great punishment for every thought of self and great reward to see the benefit I’m doing everyone, opening the tap to the Upper Light, whenever I think of the others.
We have the level of forces and the level of this world, never the twain shall meet. Either we go to Shulchan Aruch and it will explain all the details in terms of this world, or we talk about Sefirot.
Also, though seemingly pain is a consideration in one place, as with the slaughter, when it comes to the circumcision and all the more so, birth, we see the opposite, that from great suffering comes great good. So, we can only get to the bottom of these things from the level of their Upper Roots in Atzilut.
