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Preparation Question: Our entire work in Kabbalah is only to attract the light that reforms. By this we receive everything we need for our advancement. Furthermore, I’m told that if I will help the others, I will advance myself even more towards spirituality. How does this work? What does it mean to help the others, those with the point in the heart, on the spiritual path?
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Since we have no ability to do this alone, connection within the right environment seems the path forward.
I read this in the Speech for the Completion of the Zohar.
-“They said about that, “The Torah is acquired by forty-eight virtues, by serving friends and by meticulousness of sages.” This is so because besides serving the rav, one needs the meticulousness with friends, as well, the friends’ influence, so they will affect him the obtainment of his rav’s greatness. This is so because obtaining the greatness depends entirely on the environment, and a single person cannot do a thing about it whatsoever.
Yet, there are two conditions to obtaining the greatness:
Always listen and assume appreciation of the environment to the extent of their greatness.
The environment should be great, as it is written, “In the multitude of people is the king’s glory.”
To receive the first condition, each student must feel that he is the smallest among all the friends. In that state, one can receive the appreciation of the greatness from everyone, since the great cannot receive from a smaller one, and much less be impressed by his words. Rather, only the small is impressed by the appreciation of the great.And for the second condition, each student must extol the virtues of each friend and cherish him as though he were the greatest in the generation. Then the environment will affect him as a sufficiently great environment, since quality is more important than quantity.”
I know we all have egos that might bother someone and feel hurt, but this spiritual path gives us some concepts we can hold on to, so we can all help each other in the corrections we have to do: 1) “Love your friend as yourself”, so we can have this intention in the interactions we will be having with our group; and 2) “There is nothing besides him”, so we can take whatever “negative experience” into a “message from the Creator” and correct ourselves instead of reacting from our egos.
We form the Kli through the Love of Friends and attract the Light that Reforms through our Connected Corrected Desire. We strive together for Lishma and support each other through the ascending and descending states. Individually, we think always how we can attain Dvikut and we wish this for the others; knowing they present to us a glimpse of the Creator and endless opportunities to ascend with joy and pleasure in our Purpose ❤️
By seeking the light and advancing spiritually, I will help the whole because we are interconnected. Just by my realization and changing in myself, through the light of the creator, others around me are already being effected and changing. The past is also being healed. By being with a group and helping each other, we are beginning the process of receiving to bestow.
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