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It will take time to feel these terms inside you. In the meantime, try to understand. The Light works a bit, you feel a bit. You try to understand, the Light works, you feel a bit more. This way, you build the vessels.
There isn’t a strong connection between Machsom and Hanukkah. Hanukkah is after the Machsom.
The main thing is that you’re thinking of the friends, the Creator, and the spiritual goal; however that happens is good. It’s not already a state of knowledge of the Creator’s actions, but it’s in the right direction. Knowledge of the Creator’s actions is something much clearer and unmistakable.
The Creator has the whole reality to talk to you with. Some can respond to more inner language. Some only respond to external language.
You sometimes collapse into despair or mechanical action. That is, giving up or treating Kabbalah like a religion, in the meantime. But if in both cases you stay inside our system, there are certainly enough forces to continue until the Light works on the person. You’re also in a system of Arvut with your friends, more or less consciously. But it works. But one has to get used to depending not on oneself but the forces in the system to which I belong. It’s a transition that needs to happen. I don’t like it because I had hoped to attain spirituality on my own forces, so it’s hard to accept.
If you did what you could, that’s it. It’s like a drowning person. You swim to them and try to help them. If they don’t try to swim at all, you let them go. Otherwise, you’ll drown together.
We can only be a support system for the willing.
No, this is just one of the myriad ways that the ego uses to distance a friend closer to the door, until he is all the way out the door. There’s no such thing that I’m with the ten on a spiritual level, but would not realize my chance to be with them on a corporeal level. If I’m in love, would I choose to only exchange letters, or think about her, when I could talk to her on the phone, or be only on the phone when I could be physically with her? No. Therefore, to love the friends is to be with them, supporting them in everything, as much as I can. Whatever I withhold, so from me, spirituality will be withheld.
But if the friend is stepping away, we should gently hold onto him as much as we can. But no, there’s no such thing as a slight distancing from the ten that is spiritually healthy.
