We have previously suggested that love is an ideal model for the religious experience. A person discovering spirituality is comparable to a person discovering love for the first time. He is faced with an entirely new phenomenon, radically different in every respect from his former childish games at marbles, dolls or basketball. A new world unfolds before his eyes, a world in which all of his unique potential may be realized. This new world has the capacity to grant him joy and gladness, or to plunge him into misery and despair.
True love exists alongside illusory, idolatrous love.
In the religious sphere as well, true spirituality exists alongside idolatry. This fact compels us to alter our perspective. Until this point we have discussed the existential problems experienced by all of mankind. Now we begin to uncover the Jew inside of us. The appearance of the dream to the Kuzari, a gentile, obliges us to open the discussion of a general problem, which we will address in greater depth at a later stage.