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Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Shimon were leaders of the Bar Kokhba revolt. How does this action they took fit within the precept of Love the Other as yourself? Is this why it is said, “Love your Friend”, and not “Love everyone”, meaning perhaps love those who are Israel, (that is those “reaching for or straight to the Creator”) while allowing one to revolt, even do harm if necessary to prevent those who seek to do harm to the Friends from doing so?
I recognize that on one hand the “revolt” or any such action was corporeal and on the other hand the intention of “what is your is yours and what is mine is yours” is internal, yet … This deserves some thoughtful discernment it would seem; please help untangle this seeming dichotomy. Shalom
I enjoy listening to the Zohar readings in Aramaic, Hebrew and English. With each language I feel a peacefulness and a sense that time itself has stopped.
Viewing reality from the perspective of the Creator means unbounded benevolence and good, giving to bestow and bestowing true love of the highest order on everything. It means understanding the Creator made the creature imperfect, that is the will to receive rather than to give, so that the creature would undergo correction to become equivalent in form to the Creator.
I was inspired by hearing firsthand from Julian how the process of the group works, the struggles we might expect on the path ahead, the benefits of the friends raising our prayer together and how the ascents and descents are a natural part of the work with the others.
Despite a lifetime of gathering knowledge, I have learned that the older I get the less I know, and the less I think know the more I feel, and the more I feel the closer to love of others I am.
I wish for my fellow students of Kabbalah a path of increasing Light as we climb the ladder together.
If people were connected to the spiritual law of love everything would change; wars, hatred, disconnection, alienation, all the ubiquitous manifestations of the ego gone berserk would disappear as the approach according to the spiritual law of love would be one of bestowal and giving rather than the ego’s insatiable appetite to take without end.
