keywords spirituality this approach does not contradict the first…

Page 77 keywords spirituality this approach does not contradict the first, but rather explains it - God preserves hesed by making it grow. The the chesed that a person performs is itself a living entities life force is the movement that I made, my rising from one level to another. The actual result of my actions has no worth from the perspective of the supreme value - it is certainly worth less than the perfect, absolute, and eternal value - but God values the movement itself, the Ascent, making that which is deficient less deficient. The moment one has stopped moving forward and certainly after one has died, nothing should remain. The performance of a mitzvah is like the planting of a seed. If I stop watering it, if I stop ascending further, then only a memory will remain of the seed that I planted; either grows or dies.

— from True North (Ethics, Integrity, Truth, Values)

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