A man has to imagine that the Creator – is good and does good to all creatures, and there is nobody besides Him. So the man needs to treat his surroundings accordingly.  This means that he is trying to achieve equivalence of form with the Creator, merging with Him.

We can’t directly apply to the Creator, since in this case our attitude towards Him will be motivated by a selfish desire. But if we train ourselves in such a relation to other creatures, gaining their desires and filling them, thus we become like the Creator, and merge with Him. This process we must take.

Question: What does it mean practically – to become like the Creator, bestowing to creatures just as Him?

I must try to understand how the Creator relates to the creatures. I must try to imagine what it means to stay in the desire to bestow, what it means to love them and care about the fact that they feel good. And for that I must take care about two things: firstly, that they are not lacking anything necessary for existence, because "if there is no bread – there is no Torah", and the second – that the rest is the Torah, i.e., the light, pulling us back to the Source.

This means that I must help a person to rise above his animal existence and become a man, who is connecting and merging with the Creator. If it depends on me, and Creator doesn’t do this, but instead hands to me the right to be His representative in this mission, then I must help them, and thereby benefit the creatures.

That is what I should do for them out of love. If I love them and understand what the Creator wants in His love for them – that means I should give them all that is necessary for the existence of the physical body and a perfect filling for the spiritual body. What more could there be?

It looks like I take their souls, their vessels, and fill them materially and spiritually. This is how I care about them and treat them with love. Thus, I become like the Creator. Therefore, all abundance flows through me to them, and I become their guide to the light. This is the mission of the people of Israel towards the peoples of the world.

This post is an excerpt translated from a larger article found at http://bit.ly/5B3U8