Rabash. What Does the Rule "Love Thy Friend as Thyself" Give Us. 5 (1984) [2026-04-10] #lesson
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This Kabbalah lesson, based on a 2003 recording by Rabash, explores the spiritual significance of the commandment 'Love thy friend as thyself' as the essential pathway to connecting with the Creator. The speaker explains that the soul of Adam HaRishon was divided into individual parts not as a flaw, but as a necessary mechanism for spiritual growth—only through mutual connection and self-nullification can one ascend from reception to bestowal. The collective work of the group, especially the act of loving friends, becomes the vessel through which the soul attains wholeness and adhesion with the Creator. The lesson emphasizes that this love is not emotional or personal but a deliberate, goal-oriented effort that transforms the individual’s nature, allowing them to 'create themselves' like the Creator by absorbing the society’s inspiration. The necessity of this work grows through repeated failure and effort, culminating in a profound inner conviction that the society is the only true path to spiritual attainment. The lesson concludes with a powerful affirmation: when one truly internalizes this, love of friends becomes equal in importance to love of the Creator.
Love of friends is not an emotion but a spiritual action that creates the vessel for adhesion with the Creator.
The division of the soul into parts is not a defect but a divine mechanism enabling the transition from reception to bestowal.
True spiritual growth comes not from individual effort but from the collective, where each person’s unique qualities are integrated into a unified whole.
The society is the only place where one can access the creative force to transform one’s nature and become like the Creator.
Necessity for the work arises not from theory but from repeated failure and internalized experience, leading to a life-altering shift in priorities.
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The Foundation: Why Love Thy Friend as Thyself?
“Without the division of the soul of Adam HaRishon into individual souls, we would not have the ability to do anything. It is like Adam HaRishon itself would not have understood that it is possible to be in adhesion with the Creator beyond the vessel of Keter with the light of Nefesh.”
The Mechanics of Spiritual Work: From Ego to Adhesion
The speaker explains how the will to receive, when directed toward friends instead of the Creator directly, becomes a protective mechanism. This indirect path allows the ego to be transformed through the work of love, preventing spiritual inversion into selfish desire.
The Necessity of the Society: From Failure to Conviction
“It's not that he simply discusses or hears about it, but it comes after many... actions in single and double concealment where gradually, out of no choice, something forms within the person.”
Equality, Connection, and the Force of Bestowal
“If we are truly friends, no one has anything more than the other. Our profit is between us. Not in me, nor you, or him and him and him. But in the connection between us. There lays the Prophet.”
The Society as a Spiritual Tool: Creating Yourself Like the Creator
“We don't understand how this... I go into my soul. I take the society, manipulate it with different opinions, different outlooks or something. I take all of the knowledge of the society, its messaging and so on, ideals, and I take them into myself and it begins to work within me as though in that moment I create myself, I craft myself.”
“We don't understand how this... I go into my soul. I take the society, manipulate it with different opinions, different outlooks or something. I take all of the knowledge of the society, its messaging and so on, ideals, and I take them into myself and it begins to work within me as though in that moment I create myself, I craft myself.”
“Without the division of the soul of Adam HaRishon into individual souls, we would not have the ability to do anything. It is like Adam HaRishon itself would not have understood that it is possible to be in adhesion with the Creator beyond the vessel of Keter with the light of Nefesh.”
“If we are truly friends, no one has anything more than the other. Our profit is between us. Not in me, nor you, or him and him and him. But in the connection between us. There lays the Prophet.”
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