What is our purpose?

Often we hear, "what is the meaning of life?"  Once we look at the question without, "what is in it for me?" we can find a rather startling answer.  In effect we are asking what is our purpose!

There are two verses, commandments, we need to consider:

Deuteronomy 6:5  Love the L-rd your G-d with all of your heart, with all of your soul, and with all of your strength.

In short we are instructed to adhere ourselves to our Creator with all of our heart/desires, with all of our soul/spirit/life force, and with all of our physical abilities.  We are to submit all of our existence from our soul, desires, and our physical being to His will.

His plea with us is to literally join and be partners with Him.  The Creator and humans are to be one!  One in purpose on a personal level.  We are to become the fingers of G-d within creation.

And

Leviticus 19:18  Love your neighbor as yourself for I am the L-rd

We covered this in a previous post "Love your neighbor: The 11th Commandment?"  Suffice it to say, we are to realize and accept that a part of our Creator exists within each of us.  This includes the righteous and the wicked as well as all of us in between. 

This is His plea with us to literally join and be a partner with Him on a corporate level.  We, as a people, are to become one with Him!  We are to become a nation of people that He can call us by name.  Hear O'Israel!  Israel is anyone looking for a direct relationship with the Creator without any middlemen or intermediary deities.

As Hallel taught, these commandments sum up the entire Torah and all other commandments are in effect commentary for the two just mentioned above.   The Torah is not replaced by these two commandments but rather these commandments give us our focus.

Each of these verses identify our Creator as the source and the reason for the commandments.  We are being told that we are to be like our Creator.  The Creator gives, that is His nature and this He does without variation.  He is a constant that never changes.  We are receivers by design but like to give as well.  Thus as we receive from our Creator we are to share and bestow upon others.  Can we image a world were all would give for the sake of all in an altruistic manner?

He is asking us to be like Him.  The Torah, which is for all of mankind, Is His blue print for how we are to conduct our affairs with Him and our neighbor.  By implementing the Torah with the correct intention of giving ourselves to our Creator selflessly, We can make a positive change in the universe.

Our purpose is to join and be like our Creator, not in form but in intention and attributes,  by giving of ourselves in a selfless manner to Him.