Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 228

And During the Lesson, When We Are Occupied with Ourselves, How Can We Think About the Friend Sitting Next to Us?

First of all, if we are unable to think about several things simultaneously, we should not think that this would bring us less success than someone who has a quick mind. There is no connection whatsoever, nor is there any way to measure, compare, or assess who will be more successful, who will be faster, or who will find more convenient ways. That is not how these things are measured. We sit in the lesson and know that we need to think about the study. In The Study of the Ten Sefirot, we learn something new to us, something difficult and complex. We have to connect several things together and remember them. Along with this, we must think about the Creator—I, the Creator, and the actions that I perform or what I am studying, how I yearn to reach the goal, which is adhesion with the Creator at the highest degree called “final correction.”

How can we think about all this while at the same time thinking about the study? Moreover, we must think about many other things, too. In order to reach this, we need to also include the friends in our thoughts, know where they stand in relation to us, and be concerned that they receive more than we do, because we study for their sake. It is understandable that these additional thoughts about love of friends and about the path to unity, which are foreign to our nature, will distract us from engaging in the study and the wisdom. So much is demanded of us that we simply do not know what to do. If we are told simply to study, we will study. If we are told, “Do not study. Open the book and think about the Creator,” we will do that as well. But we are unable to tie all these ends together.

The solution is simply not to tie them together. We should do whatever we are capable of doing together with the study. The main thing is to study, and during the study to demand that all of this be within us. Everything else is already there inside as preparation.

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