{"id":11308,"date":"2025-12-10T15:22:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=11308"},"modified":"2025-12-20T16:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T16:13:10","slug":"laitman-what-does-love-thy-friend-as-thyself-give-us","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/laitman-what-does-love-thy-friend-as-thyself-give-us\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does \u201cLove Thy Friend as Thyself\u201d Give Us?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Laitman&#8217;s summary of<br>Rabash&#8217;s article &#8220;What Does &#8216;Love Thy Friend as Thyself&#8217; Give Us?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Essay 5, 1984<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What does the rule (&nbsp;<em>Klal&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/engkab\/daily-kabbalah-lesson\/what%20does%20Love#_ftn1\"><\/a><a><\/a>[<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/eng\/content\/view\/full\/98408#f1\">1<\/a><\/strong>]), &#8220;love thy friend as thyself&#8221; give us? Through this rule, we can come to love the Creator. If this is so, what does keeping the 612&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot&nbsp;<\/em>give us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, we need to know what a rule is. It is known that a collective (&nbsp;<em>Klal<\/em>) consists of many individuals. Without individuals, there cannot be a collective. For example, when we refer to an audience as &#8220;a sacred audience,&#8221; we are referring to a number of individuals who have gathered and formed a unit. This is called a&nbsp;<em>Minian<\/em>&nbsp;(ten\/quorum) or a &#8220;congregation,&#8221; for at least ten people must be present, as written in&nbsp;<em>The<\/em><em>Zohar<\/em>, &#8220;Wherever there are ten, Divinity dwells.&#8221; This means that in a place where there are ten men, there is a place for the dwelling of Divinity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It therefore follows that if we keep the 612&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>, we will be able to achieve the rule, &#8220;Love thy friend as thyself.&#8221; It turns out that the particular elements allow us to achieve the collective, and when we have the collective, we will be able to achieve the love of the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, one cannot keep all 612&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot&nbsp;<\/em>alone. For if one&#8217;s first-born is a girl, he cannot keep the&nbsp;<em>Mitzva<\/em>&nbsp;of redemption of the first-born. Likewise, women are exempt from observing time-dependent&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>, But because &#8220;all of Israel are responsible for one another,&#8221; through everyone, it is as though everyone keeps all the&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot&nbsp;<\/em>together. 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