Article of the Day April 5, 2009

I should reach the state when no matter what my nature makes me wish, I have to realize and understand the necessity of my work with the group or my work with the world, no matter how I put it, I should make myself achieve the state of love for my neighbor. I should not be pushed by nature!

When you are free, you can do what you please! You should be free from your will to receive, free from all your fears, free from being afraid that you will not survive without loving your neighbor, free from everything there is. You can be the biggest and the most complete sinner of all, you have the right to do what you please, and everything is permitted to you. However, you should gradually come to the state, when even though you are completely free, free as the Creator Himself, you will start making yourself love your neighbor, love every minor detail of your neighbor, care about him in everything that possibly depends on you. It is called being free, it is called being big.

It means that you rise above your ego, and having done so, you make yourself do that. Instead of someone else making you do that by means of various blows, you make yourself come to that state on your own, and this is called “working in faith above reason”. It happens when your faith makes you do nothing, you have no obligations at all, and you are totally free in the Creator’s world. When can you be completely free? Only when you are like Him, when the only thing making you act is the knowledge that this is your highest value. This is called freedom. We do not totally understand how it is possible to be free. For example, look at the mother of 10, she is busy with her children all the time, can we call that freedom the way we see it? Based on our ego, we look at it as a very difficult work, but it is freedom based on the will to bestow, because it is not the difficult work that is valued (as in our example with caring for children), but how one rises above his will to received, above what is called “exile” for men. If I can get out of this state and start to control everything myself, if I can make myself keep the state of Arvut and do that on my own, if I can reach the state of “one man with one heart” along, then this is my “escape to freedom”.