Question: We say that everything depends on the connection between us. But what is this connection?
Answer: We begin our spiritual development from a point that is outside of spirituality. And the whole time we remain on this point outside spirituality called this world in which we now exist.
Why? So that we would be independent from the spiritual world. The spiritual world is like a huge sphere, and we are now outside of it, off to the side. And then I can enter it, or I can choose not to. I am as if independent.
When the point in the heart is awakened within me, I begin to strive toward this sphere even though I do not yet picture myself as a tiny dot next to a huge, awe-inspiring sphere into which I wish to enter. But I am drawn to it.
With this desire, this yearning for spirituality, I come to a group. What is this group? Men sitting together, studying, talking, being inspired, discussing, singing, eating. Some sort of club—rather strange, but there are many such places in the world.
I look at this group as just an ordinary gathering of people in this world. Then they tell me: “You must connect with us, join the group, take part in all the activities, the duties, take on certain responsibilities, because we have a common work.” I am ready; what else can I do… After all, I see some benefit in it.
So, I connect with these guys because I understand that together we will apparently achieve something. Besides, I do not see any other place where I could do this, so I comply.
Gradually, over the years, I discover that in this place where I am, there truly is an inner connection. I come to discover this after several years. And those years were not in vain. They were years of my inner work, when I did not feel it, but the upper light was acting and performing many actions within me at great speed. Then I begin to hear. What does it mean “to hear”? I suddenly begin to pay attention, to give value to the inner connection between us, the unity in feelings, in hearts.
It is just that the time has come, and I begin to be moved by these words, to give them importance. This is the result of the light that had been working on me all those years, penetrating ever deeper into my heart, and the heart began to respond to these words: “connection,” “mutual guarantee,” “love,” “bestowal,” “as one man with one heart.” I begin to feel some inner responses to these words. For each word, there is a certain reaction within me; I sense the inner essence of the word.
More months go by, and more, and more. For this is how we correct our foundations, the Malchut of infinity within us, until I truly begin to draw closer to my friends. I now see them as companions on my spiritual path, and I understand that this path runs inward, into us, into our inner center, into our inner connection. And there, if we unite, we attain everything.
And if before I imagined the spiritual world as a huge sphere outside of me, perhaps somewhere far beyond the boundaries of the Universe, now I increasingly associate spirituality with my inner feeling, which is revealed in the unity between us.
This place does not exist now, but if we begin to connect with one another, we will create a new reality, which will be called “the place.” From these shared desires we will reach the place in which the Creator will be revealed.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/24/11, The Book of The Zohar “BeShalach”
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Each time we must choose the best possible environment, meaning, to see the friends as more corrected than what my egoism shows me. Naturally, this doesn’t mean jumping from one place to another. While remaining with the same friends, I must continually elevate their level in my eyes and value them more and more. This depends solely on me, not on them.
