Question: You said that I cannot achieve spiritual love if I do not feel rejected by others, right?

Answer: Of course, what will you build your love on? If you simply feel love for someone, then this is corporeal, carnal love or some earthly attraction.

Let us say you like a friend, a child, a woman, food, etc., i.e., all categories of our main interests. But this is not what we are talking about. You can build love only based on rejection from a friend.

Question:  Let us say a friend for whom I initially have no feelings is sitting in front of me. I begin to strive for love, for unification with him, and in response to this, the Creator sends me rejection from him, right?

Answer: Yes if you really strive for a connection with him.

Question: Is my test that if I truly strive for connection with him, the Creator will certainly send me rejection from him?

Answer: Not right away. You will have to work with a friend, as is usually done in our world. Then, you will definitely begin to feel some kind of rejection. These are already spiritual sensations that are not typical of our world. You will even think: “Why did I suddenly hate him so much? I suddenly stopped liking this and that in him?” That is how spiritual qualities manifest themselves in him and you. Therefore, mutual rejection arises.

But if mutual attraction continues between you, and you embrace with pleasure, dine with pleasure, and communicate, then this is earthly companionship.

In Kabbalah, any connection is built only on rejection and hatred. Love is built by effort.

Question: What is the work of a friend regarding me at the moment when I strive toward him? Must he try to show me the same?

Answer: This is already difficult. Your friend may show that he is striving for you, or on the contrary, he demonstrates complete disdain. The Creator gives you all sorts of exercises.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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