Question: How should I conduct myself with people I have known for many years?

Answer: Does the fact that I have known them for many years oblige me to sacrifice my life for them? In my life, there is nothing more important to me than what I attain in it. Being together with these people, I am as if serving them: I justify them, I must value this game. What for? If this is important to you, then by all means. And if not, then do not. You have to decide. This is your life, not mine.

Therefore, the question “What is the meaning of our life” should constantly awaken in a person, with every inner definition (Havhana) that he grasps in his life.

By this, he asks: “How do I relate to this factor? Does it bring me closer to the goal? Is this important to me, or is there something else more important?” And in this way, each time, a person advances. If you want to settle for this kind of society, please, do. Free choice is in your hands.

When I visited abroad, I would find myself at formal dinner parties. It was like a puppet show. So what? Could I really participate in that? Out of necessity I might sit through one or two evenings and make conversation, but that’s it. I do not understand: am I supposed to serve such societies? Am I supposed to bend to their ideal?

Question: I do not feel that I am bending.

Answer: If you do not even feel that you are bending your opinion to theirs, that is bad. Does it not seem to you that they are small children? They are undeveloped. So, if you want to be like them, stay with them.

This is some kind of indecisiveness: “I would still like to remain in kindergarten.” About such a person we say: “A fool.” If he should be studying at school but still wants to remain in kindergarten, then he is a fool. Every child, if he is healthy, wants to grow up. Do you remember how, as a child, you wanted to grow up? And now you want to be small, as it is said: “What should be done with children who have grown old?”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/18/26, Rabash, “What Are “Blessing” and “Curse” in the Work?”

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