“Through the love of others, to the love of G_d!”
An article in The Jerusalem Post:
My comment:
What the article describes is true.
As our greatest sages explain based on the Torah, “From the love of others to the love of God.”
Many even express that we simply have no access to G_d without a unique, mutually integrated, and mutually complementing connection to other people.
We have the example of the “Standing at Sinai,” where the original Nation of Israel merited to witness G_d on the Mountain and the reception of the Torah when they unconditionally pledged — “We shall do and we shall hear” — to become of “One mand with One heart” based on a totally selfless Mutual Guarantee.
Even praying we should not pray alone; we have to pray in Minyans, and the most effective prayer is the “Prayer of Many,” where each person prays for the many, for others without any consideration for oneself.
As our sages beautifully describe, we have to “tune ourselves to G_d’s frequency” in order to make a connection with Him and make our prayers heard. “As He is merciful, you should also be merciful.”
And since G_d is characterized by the qualities of unconditional and pure love and bestowal, we have to develop and acquire the same qualities.
Developing such “godly qualities is possible only through and with the mutual help of other people with the help of the Instructions of the Torah.
We cannot connect to G_d without the right assembly and connection between us!