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RABASH, Article No. 6 (1984), “Love of Friends – 2”
If several individuals come together with the force that it is worthwhile to abandon self-love, but without the sufficient power and importance of bestowal to become independent, without outside help, if these individuals annul before one another and all have at least potential love of the Creator, though they cannot keep it in practice, then by each joining the society and annulling oneself before it, they become one body.
For example, if there are ten people in that body, it has ten times more power than a single person does.
However, there is a condition: When they gather, each of them should think that he has now come for the purpose of annulling self-love. It means that he will not consider how to satisfy his will to receive now, but will think as much as possible only of the love of others. This is the only way to acquire the desire and the need to acquire a new quality, called “the will to bestow.” And from love of friends one can reach love of the Creator, meaning wanting to give contentment to the Creator.This is one of the excerpts that we currently read in the morning lessons in preparation for the upcoming congress. We read this one today and it feels to me that it is expressing the core of our work in the group, that I am so grateful to experience together with all of you, dear friends!
1. Fully committed choice and desire to put myself under the influence of the teacher. The goal is to accomplish the fulfillment of the purpose of His creation according to the Creator’s thought and I fully trust that the teacher is capable to teach us accordingly. Keep and grow the desire in the group to learn the truth from him and follow the teacher’s instructions and fully submit to him.
2. My impression is that Rav is speaking the truth and that he is a genuine, humble and lovable person, completely devoted to the goal.
What did I take from the lesson?
Friends are selected for me as a mirror. Flaws I see are opportunities for me to discover a need to be corrected, to ask for the reforming light to change me in order to get closer to the friends and love them. – The exercise in our imagined perception of being lower, greater, and equal to the friends: only perception of being equals felt true to me. Being lower/greater was even hard to imagine and disturbing the connection.How do we make sure that we draw the reforming light with every action of ours:
We need to really desire to reach the common goal and feel what is lacking. Set intention to bestow, to do good to everyone, try to connect and get closer. Feel the lack, ask for the light to change us.Message that will help build between us a demand so that none of us will be able to differentiate himself from the others, and we will feel as one
The true desire for the Creator’s ability to love is building in the connection between us as equals, as one whole, eternal. The complete puzzle needs every piece to be connected.Remind each other of the connection throughout the week
I remember myself searching for “the ten” during my first 2-3 weeks of the study. It sounded like the real work and wasn’t in the schedule … finally, it is. Looking forward to the work, curious, never happy if I need to speak, but I am open for connection! What about you?It should be the right chat here. As for the recorded message, looks we have the option of using a link to an upload somewhere.
During the lesson itself it also was posted “text, audio or video” … so text should be an option, too.Homework – Lesson No.5:
Each friend leaves a short recorded message (audio or video):
What did I take from the lesson?Read the quote by Dr. Laitman:
“What I do in this work is demand the Reforming Light. And when the Reforming Light comes to me it brings me closer to the friend, I begin to feel him close to me, and I begin to care for him, that I have a certain warmth to him, still far from the actual flame, but I can somehow say that I am beginning to get close to the matter of love. And then, when I feel such a sensation, this sensation makes us equal, equal by me not being able to think of myself, only of two, and first of him and then of myself. And so on, these are the degrees, but this is all from the Reforming Light. That’s it, so you have an exercise, be above, be below, and demand the Light that brings you the feeling of love, and then you are equal”.Discuss on the chat:
How do we make sure that we draw the reforming light with every action of oursLeave a recorded audio/video message
that will help build between us a demand so that none of us will be able to differentiate himself from the others, and we will feel as one.Last but not least:
Remind each other of the connection throughout the week without overwhelming the friends in the chat. If you’re naturally active on the chat, make efforts to leave room for others. If you’re naturally inactive, make efforts to inspire the friends.
