๐ SUNDAY PRAYER: BINAH-GRACE ON SECOND SHABBAT MEAL
READING: MID DAY SATURDAY
A WARM ATTITUDE TOWARD THE FRIEND BRINGS US TO THE CREATOR
-by Rabbi Michael Laitman
If I want to focus on the Creator, I have to feel warmth towards the friend, like a warm โcrimson sphere,โ an attitude through which I carry on the connection with the friend to a connection with the Creator. After all, I love the friend precisely because the Creator is in him.
The Creator shows me who I am through the created beings in this world in the way He is concealed in it. If I can feel love towards this world, it means that I will feel love towards the Creator, towards the One who created this world and is concealed in it.
The question is: โWhy is the Creator concealed in the world and not in the Torah?โ Because this world is His concealment, and if I use the Light of the Torah, I first open what the Creator conceals in the world and then I discover Him.
The stages by which we advance towards the friend are the stages by which we advance towards the Creator, and there is nothing but that. All this is called the way of love, according to the final goal and according to what we attain along the way. Even on the lowest level we discover hatred and then love in contrast to it, and so it is time after time, on every levelโhatred and love