FRIDAY PRAYER: HOD-TEVILAH (טְבִילָה): PURIFYING (WASHING OF THE BODY) RITUAL
READING: BETWEEN AFTERNOON AND SUNSET – THURSDAY
TEVILAH (טְבִילָה): PURIFYING (WASHING OF THE BODY) RITUAL AFTER THE MAIN READINGS OF `PRAYER OF MANY´ THIS WEEK.
Me, You, Me
Is everyone corrected and only I am corrupted, or are we all one body?
If I look at my present situation, I see that I am disconnected from everyone and only look for how to take advantage of them. But I also see that I want something new, something different. I want to reach the state of Arvut (mutual guarantee) with the friends and to connect with them. I want them to be close and important to me. I want to feel my dependence on them, as my dependence on my body. The force that is revealed in the connection between us is called, “Creator,” bestowal.
“And love the other as yourself” is a spiritual state, where the friends who seem strange to me at the moment, transform to be part of me to some extent, seem to be as like me, where there is at least one measure that is shared between us, and we are connected to it together. And for this connection I am given a group. Begin connecting everyone together, until you feel in them that they exist in you. From within the shared measure, together, until you feel in them that they exist in you. From within the shared measure, shared desires, you will begin to feel the spiritual force.
Your are constantly in confusion between the observation of your disconnection from everyone, that they are corrected and you are corrupted, and between the spiritual connection. That’s very good. You should constantly be in this confusion. This only says that you are in the correct thought towards the studies and the connection, and with their help you will attract the spiritual force.
– from the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 01/26/11, The Zohar (minutes 14-23), Daily Kabbalah Tip
PRAYER FOR UPPER STATE: SELF SCRUTINY: Read the above short article, reflect and see if you have some more of your own additional discernment of being connected with The Group.
Arvut!