Question: Will states of hatred in spiritual work constantly arise, and must they always be covered with love?

Answer: The Book of Zohar says that the students of Rabbi Shimon, who wrote this book together, experienced such intense emotions toward one another that they wanted to kill each other. This refers to great Kabbalists on high spiritual levels.

Therefore, if you think that your minor negative attitudes toward others will simply transform into good ones, don’t; such hopes are futile. On the contrary, even more irreconcilable feelings toward others will arise within you, so that you will ask the Creator to change them.

He will correct them, and simultaneously awaken deeper egoistic desires in you in which you will feel even greater hatred. Then you will ask Him for even more correction, and He will continue to correct them.

This is how, step by step, hatred followed by love, hatred followed by love, you will move forward.

Thus, the greater a person becomes compared to their friend, the greater their egoism because the previous levels of egoism have already been corrected.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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