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Part 2:
Rabash. Article 2, 1984. Concerning Love of Friends
1.R. (00:22) Yes, let's go through it because we need to let the woman ask. I'm happy to hear them again.
Reading (00:35) “Concerning Love of Friends - 1. the need for love of friends……”
2. R. (06:50) I think it is worthwhile for us to read it again and we will see what else we will see.
Reading (07:00) “Concerning Love of Friends - 1. the need for love of friends……”
3. S. (13:05) He writes in two places here how to be integrated, how ten forces are integrated by working in annulment and bestowal?
R. We cannot talk about that now, it is still too early for us, when we begin to build to when we begin to build ourselves we will see how it works?
4. S. (13:40) If I have a friend who has fallen in this study, how can I ask myself where did I make that my friend fell in the way?
R. I don't know what to tell you, there are many reasons. It is written, 10 enter the room and 1000 enter and just one emerges to the light of the study. Meaning those who enter along the way many leave and return to the regular life. Because they will to receive it is demanding from then every day more and more to add any spiritual work and self annulment and not everyone agrees to this, and not everyone has the patience, not each and everyone has the ability to say even though I'm not advancing but to leave the state that I am in I cannot because it is the point of truth at least these I reach in my life.
5. S. (15:10) Does each kind of society in the world multiply desires in it by a factor of ten is that a law of nature or only with love our friends when you enter it is times ten?
R. Well that's how he says it is not necessarily it could be less and more, but yes. In a society that person is incorporated in multiplying the forces and their results, that's clear but ten times, you cannot measure it, you can’t check that.
6. S. (16:01) Yesterday we talked about working in concealment and today he emphasizes that love should be disclosed, when should we work in concealment and one when should we disclose it?
R. For the time being we all need to advance in what we are. When we are working in the group there is already just like we are just reading this article and there's already work also in revelation and in humbleness. Sometimes I have to come to a state where I discover my relation the friends that I love them, that I want to operate from them, to connect to it and sometimes I need to be humble and not always pressure them, disclose my heart. Certainly I'm not allowed to disclose to my friends that I'm in a state of descent and I don't appreciate the group and the Creator and our path. This of course we need to be in concealment.
7. S. (17:33) What is the state that the Rabash mentions a few times, reaching love of others. What is this goal that we should hold before of our eyes, love of others?
R. The love of others is that I'm trying to see all the friends, that they are trying each of them, as much as they can to be in love of others, to the ten, to the group. When I see this I also want to feel in me the extent which I'm In the connection between us, I am impressed by this as much as this strengthens me in the connection towards the goal,
8. S. (18:35) How do we interpret that we need to work with love and hatred with the friends in the ten?
R. Along the way we will learn this also will love, also hatred, also with indifference, also with attraction and all our tendencies we are going to learn how to use them in the most open manner and brought manner towards connection. Connection is actually our goal and all these discernments the Creator didn't create anything just like that, all the hatred and all the love, all the rejection and everything is connection, it all eventually enters in a complete way to the state of the end of correction.
9. S. (19:43) Questions is number one and two are ways to see how to attain the greatness of the friend?
R. Yes, start with that and we will discover more.
10. S. (20:08) I like to relate to what Rabash writes here that's not clear, he says that for this reason he should not disclose what's in his heart because we know that working humble is a great thing and on the other hand we should disclose his love to our friends. Love to the friend doesn’t come from the heart. Do I have to make a show as I if I love him?
R. I can’t say, we will see.
S. I can’t stand this friend, so should I act out like I love them?
R. Yes for sure, what do you want, to present what your heart really feels?
S. What should I do? There are some here that I cannot stand, what should I do?
R. You don’t do with him, you do with yourself.
S. So what should I do, there are some here that I cannot stand, what should I do? I believe you, so why should I do, what should I do?
R. You don’t do with him, you do with yourself, you're choking yourself and you're obligating yourself to be at least in external love to him, yes, of course otherwise what? You will be in a group where everyone loves each other and you are the only one in the group that will start to present yourself as one who hates others, how could the group tolerate you?
S. You teach us we have to reach hatred to discover love.
R. But the hatred is revealed when you yearn for love and you discover how much hatred exists inside you, Where it was there before or so but now that we work in love with discover hatred more and more in order to cover it with love.
S. Then we can reach love, he writes here concerning love of friends that the title says, only this way we can reach love of friends?
R. Yes, we reach love like the students of Rabbi Shimon like they come to study like if he has a knife.
S. A knife in his teeth.
R. Yes in his teeth, in his hand, it doesn't matter what, everyone hated everyone and wanted to kill one another and cannot stand one another.
S. How does this hatred come basically?
R. It is disclosed from above.
S. How does it happen in the ten?
R. If we yearn for connection and for the Creator hatred will be revealed more and more. This is how we discover the bad forces and upon that through the connection between us, the efforts to connect between us, the effort for prayer for the Creator we draw the upper light and it comes and he who make peace in the heavens makes peace upon us and correct all evil to good, to the intention in order to bestow.
S. Our whole work is only to overcome this hatred?
R. Yes, all our work is to overcome the hatred.
11. S. (23:54) Can we summarize what is love?
R. Love is what is built upon the hatred because besides we need upon the hatred, the rejection, the pride, everything we have just to be proud and pride and each getting himself to jump up like that we need to cover all this would love. That's our work and let's hope that we will understand more these states and that the Creator will do this, because he who makes peace of heavens would make peace upon us. We are not capable but the fact that it is revealed between us that is already a sign that we are advancing?
12. S. (25:00) Can we say that if you annul to the group to the ten, you love them?
R. No, but it is considered that you understand that you need to come closer and you don't have the forces to love them but somewhat to come closer and that's what you're trying to do gradually. That's our work and let's hope that we will succeed, we nevertheless have made this way and we are truly in the King's gate. When we decide that we really need to overcome all the bad that is revealed between us then we will enter the gate.
13. S. (25:54) How can we relate to a friend that opens up his descent?
R. That he's talking badly?
S. He's telling us about his descent, his recognition of evil, and he opens that in the ten.
R. I don't know sometimes there's no choice that we need to talk with such a friend or otherwise he won't be able to discharge himself and be able to continue to a good direction but usually we don't do that. We don't do that, where as it is good to take him to some sport lesson, let him take it out in the gym, don't disregard such things, they really help to lower this inner stress that we have because for the time being our internality is on a corporeal level not and spiritual level and it helps.
S. Are we supposed to respond as he unloads his evil, to let him release it or to tell him friend that's not the right thing to do?
R. You have to see according with the situation, nevertheless if you already started then you need to give him a little bit but then after that I will say that in our society it is not customary and we prefer to keep these things inside of ourselves. Give the friend the feeling that we are in a not good state and they should have mercy upon me and mercy in such a way that they can give me a little peace, a little quiet.
14. S. (28:20) Being involved in the friends desire and to raise the right prayer is making the Creator happy?
R. Yes also of course. Every step towards connection the scrutiny, delights the Creator.
15. S. (28:55) Yesterday you gave an advice for practical actions, you say that every action should end with a decision for the next time, it wasn't so clear what are we doing this scrutinies should we do it around love of friends. What can we hold on, what can we realize?
R. You think about this more and more and we will do some exercise about it.
16. S. (29:50) In questions one, two and four, Rabash asks questions but he doesn't answer, what does he mean here?
R. His intention I don't know, don't ask about his intention. I think that he's giving us here the correct guidance and as much as needed so that we would understand according with this text what we need to do, how do we need to execute it, how do we need to relate to it, how to scrutinize states.
S. He doesn't explain in number four here, should we know what every friend likes, what should we do?
R. So we need to continue in the scrutiny, whatever is not written here then we need to read it in our hearts.
S. How in our hearts?
R. How, you need to ask yourself and the friends, this is how it is in all the writings of the Kabbalists, you think that you have it in TES or the Preface and all the things I am not even talking about the letters and articles that everything is written here more questions than answers. All those guide you to all these questions and it is all to aim you to the goal and only in the effort for the goal you open and discover the answer.
17. R. (31:50) With that for the time being we will stop and whoever is ready is invited at 12 p.m., at 12 noon to come to the lesson, until then all the best to you in an endless connection between everyone thank you.