When you approach the wisdom of Kabbalah, you don’t come because you want to love man, or because you want to love the Creator. In fact, a person comes in the state when he hates everyone and the whole world. He curses the Creator and everyone. He comes with the question, “What is the meaning of my life? Why do I feel so bad?” ...
Previously, we talked about the will to receive, which is the whole ego of man. That’s the part one should correct. But from the onset, this is intentionally so, so that one deliberately and consciously attains the degree of the Creator. This is called, “to cleave unto Him,” that is, to reach the same degree as the Creator. And the means to get there is the love of man...
First of all there's a question: why is the Torah called, “the means for the correction of man?” In order to bring man to the most corrupted state in this world, to the state where there's nothing worse, and then to bring him to the attainment of the highest and eternal level called “man resembling the Creator.” The means through which it is possible to undergo such great changes of true oppositeness from one state to the other, is only by the force from Above called the Torah. That's why it's said “the Light in it reforms.”...