Excerpt from the Daily Kabbalah Lesson with Dr. Michael Laitman,
Bnei Baruch, Israel
April 26, 2010
When I connect with the others outside of me, I stay myself as well. This world does not change. The self does not change, because if the self will be eliminated, then there will be no others. I always have to feel them opposite me—hateful—more and more. There is no greater hatred then what was felt in the group of Rabbi Shimon. Based on that, they created bonds of love and revealed The Zohar. The great hatred from within, the great love on top of it and the gap provides the Light of Hochma (wisdom). The great ego and the Masach (screen) above it is what allows you to discover the great Light. You must keep yourself until the Final Correction. Afterwards, they say, it is nullified—I don't know what is afterwards—it doesn't matter to me now. It has to stay the others towards me, outside of me, and I correct my relation to them every time. The love here has to be based on hatred. This is why the reality that you reveal is a reality that is from you towards them, when you relate them to yourself. As much as you respell them by hatred, you also bring them closer by love. Within that gap, between hatred and love, you reveal the reality called spirituality.
Spirituality is called when you begin to feel what is good and bad with respect to of the desire of others, others with respect to you and not according to your own calculation. This is called: calculating in order to bestow.