Question: When we strive to reveal love, hatred is also uncovered. This leads us to fear or a sense of paralysis. What should we do next?

Answer: If you imagine that the Creator is before you, and He is presenting this to you, then why should you feel fear? It is said that one must love hatred just as one loves love. This is called “kissing the stick that strikes you.”

The fact is, there can be no light without darkness. Therefore we can advance toward spiritual revelation only by accumulating various negative impressions. And when we gather them and sufficiently enrich ourselves with negative impressions, we will then be able to reveal positive impressions, which are called the “Creator” or “light.”

At this point, we need a group to support us, so that we do not fall into despair or a sense of powerlessness from the small negative influences we encounter. We must understand that all of this is revealed to us by the Creator. He adds darkness to us so that later He can reveal the light, as the revelation of light requires very great darkness. As it is said: “The advantage of light is revealed through darkness.”

Thus, a very deep darkness is necessary, where a person realizes that in all their feelings, desires, and impulses, they are egoists. They see themselves as a thief, as brazen, as someone who does everything “for their own sake,” and not just for their own sake, but to ensure that nothing benefits others.

Essentially they see themselves in all their flaws, in their egoistic miasma, and they feel repulsed by it. Yet even so, much more darkness is needed for the light to manifest within it.

Therefore we must be prepared for this. And here the main thing is the group, because without it, it is impossible to endure.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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