A Friend in Spiritual Work
Question: What is a friend in the ten?
Answer: A friend is called “haver.” “Haver” comes from the word “hibur,” connection. Connection implies that we are different in our natural desires and at the same time united together in one goal.
Let us say there is one Kli and a second Kli, and they cannot connect with each other, but they can work to achieve one goal in which they unite, meaning, we unite only in the Creator and in no other way.
Egoists who are ready to annul their own egoism in order to unite in the Creator, to be incorporated in Him, are called friends. It is either women or men, but of the same gender. Only the Creator can connect us, and we can only ask Him about it. Even if this is not a real prayer, we can still ask.
If a person chooses the goal of attaining the Creator, then it can only be achieved by uniting different desires into one goal. Therefore it is said that the smallest group is two people.
But in order to create a whole group, it is desirable to be ten. Rabash writes about this in one of his first articles, not nine people and not eleven, but precisely ten. Why is this so? We study this from the unfolding of the four stages of direct light, from the structure of the ten Sefirot.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”
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