How can I forgive this to you while the ladder that is placed on the ground is empty? No one climbs it, and instead of today you say “tomorrow.”…

Therefore, let me remind you of the validity of love of friends in spite of everything at this time, for it is upon this that our right to exist depends, and upon this our near-to-come success is measured.

Hence, turn away from all the imaginary engagements and set your hearts on thinking thoughts and devising proper tactics to truly connect your hearts as one, so the words “Love your friend as yourself” will literally come true in you, for a verse does not reach beyond the literal, and you will be cleaned by the thought of love that will cover all crimes. Test me in that, and begin to truly connect in love, and then you will see, “the palate will taste…” (Baal HaSulam, Letter 47).

It is so difficult for us to work on the connection between us because it is precisely in this place that the spiritual shattering occurred. A person resists this action with all his might and by every means, thanks to one’s nature, their egoistic inclination.

One must pass through a vast number of states before they see that nothing helps them and ultimately return to the simple and closest principle that has been right next to them all along. Then, if there is still time left for the person in this cycle of life, he or she may yet succeed in properly connecting with one’s friends and understand that only through unity with them does one attain the spiritual world, correction, and everything in general.

Therefore, what is required here is a collective decision, a pressing need, and great joint work to constantly awaken the feeling of the importance of connection. Each one must show everyone, and all must show each one, that correction lies precisely in connection—it is within connection that the spiritual world is revealed.

All other occupations that we invent for ourselves instead of this are called artificial work and exile, exile from connection, from readiness for unity, exile from approaching contact with a friend, from love of one’s neighbor, which no longer stands as the goal behind every step and every deed in a person’s life.

The goal is precisely in connection, by which the measure of our success is determined—until it turns into a ladder of spiritual degrees, and the measures of connection become Partzufim, Sefirot, and worlds. In the end, we compress and unite to such an extent that we become as one man with one heart, which is already the degree of the world of infinity, for such connection is absolutely perfect and boundless.

And if we make this our primary, sole, and central aim, the only task we must engage in and nothing else, then we will succeed. Otherwise, our ego will gladly cast us far away from the true work, enticing us with all sorts of imaginary occupations.

As Baal HaSulam writes: Begin to truly connect in love, and the palate will taste, that is, it will taste the flavor of the inner light that is revealed to us.
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From the preparation for the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/19/12

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