A true connection with friends means that we feel one hundred percent connected and we understand each other.

The inner connection depends on the heart, on how much we want to open our heart toward the Creator and let Him into this heart so that inside this heart we feel the Creator, understand what He wants from us, and understand what we want to give Him.

The Creator wants us to appreciate internal life more than the external life. That is, the connection with the Creator should be first for us, and everything else should be secondary and temporary. If we manage to direct ourselves to that, it will already be a significant success and we will see that we are advancing.

If we fail to reach such an attitude, then gradually we will begin to move away from the spiritual path, return to the pursuits of this world, and spin in its wheel between shopping, work, and entertainment.

However the method of Kabbalah does not imply neglecting external life. It is based on increasing the importance of spiritual life, not on lowering the importance of the corporeal life. But the importance of spirituality should be higher than any corporeal fulfillment.

No matter how corporeal life puts pressure on me—family, work, and other needs—above all this I value spirituality. All my life I evaluate in terms of how much it can help my spiritual advancement or destroy it.

I raise spirituality high above everything, and I place corporeal life below under this umbrella. Then everything is suddenly easy to arrange. A person only has to agree that this should be his approach to corporeality and spirituality.

Corporeality is needed precisely in order to raise spirituality high above your head. It is like two parallel layers: spiritual life at the top and corporeal life at the bottom, and in any situation in life we maintain this attitude.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/31/23, Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “On the Night of the Bride”

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