Article No. 12, 1984<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is known that one is always among people who have no connection to the work on the path of truth, but to the contrary, always resist those who walk on the path of truth. And since people\u2019s thoughts mingle, the views of those who oppose the path of truth permeate those with some desire to walk on the path of truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hence, there is no other solution but to establish a separate society for themselves, to be their framework, meaning a separate community that does not mingle with other people whose views differ from that society. And they should constantly evoke in themselves the issue of the purpose of society, so they will not follow the majority, because following the majority is our nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If the society isolates itself from the rest of the people, if they have no connection with other people in regards to spiritual matters, and their contact with them is only on corporeal matters, they will not mingle with their views, since they have no connection in matters of religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But when a person is among religious people and begins to converse and argue with them, he immediately mingles with their views. Their views subconsciously penetrate his mind to such an extent that he will not be able to discern that these are not his own views, but what he received from the people he connected with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Therefore, in matters of work on the path of truth, one should isolate oneself from other people. This is because the path of truth requires constant strengthening, since it is against the view of the world. The view of the world is knowing and receiving, whereas the view of Torah is faith and bestowal. If one strays from that, he immediately forgets all the work of the path of truth and falls into a world of self-love. Only from a society in the form of \u201cThey helped every man his friend\u201d does each person in the society receive the strength to fight against the view of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, we find the following in the words of The<\/em> Zohar<\/em> (Pinhas, p 31, Item 91, and in the Sulam<\/em>): \u201cWhen a person dwells in a city inhabited by evil people, and he cannot keep the Mitzvot<\/em> of the Torah, and does not succeed in the Torah, he relocates and uproots himself from there and plants himself in a place inhabited by good people, with Torah and with Mitzvot<\/em>. This is because the Torah is called \u2018tree,\u2019 as it is written, \u2018She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her.\u2019 And man is a tree, as it is written, \u2018For is the tree of the field man.\u2019 And the Mitzvot<\/em> in the Torah are likened unto fruits. And what does it say? \u2018Only the trees of which thou knows that they are not trees for food, them thou may destroy and cut down,\u2019 destroy from this world and cut down from the next world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n For this reason, one must uproot himself from the place where there are wicked, for he will not be able to succeed there in Torah and Mitzvot<\/em>, and plant himself elsewhere, among righteous, and he will succeed in Torah and Mitzvot<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since man, whom The<\/em> Zohar<\/em> compares to the tree of the field, suffers, like the tree of the field, from bad neighbors\u2014meaning we must always cut down the bad weeds around us, as they affect us\u2014we must keep away from bad environments, from people who do not favor the path of truth. We need a careful watch so as to not be drawn to follow them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is called \u201cisolation,\u201d when one has thoughts of the \u201csingle authority,\u201d called \u201cbestowal,\u201d and not \u201cpublic authority,\u201d which is self-love. This is called \u201ctwo authorities\u201d\u2014the Creator\u2019s authority and one\u2019s own authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now we can understand what our sages said (Sanhedrin<\/em>, p 38), \u201cRav Yehuda said, \u2018Rav said, \u2018Adam HaRishon<\/em> was a heretic,\u2019 as it is written, \u2018And the Lord God called unto the man, and said unto him: \u2018Where art thou?\u2019\u2019 Where has thine heart gone?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In RASHI\u2019s interpretation, \u201cheretic\u201d refers to a tendency towards idol worship. And in the commentary, Etz Yosef<\/em> (Joseph\u2019s Tree<\/em>), it is written, \u201cWhen it writes, \u2018Where, where has thine heart gone?\u2019 it is heresy, as it is written, \u2018that ye go not about after your own heart,\u2019 this is heresy, when his heart leans towards the other side.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n But all this is very perplexing: How can it be said that Adam HaRishon<\/em> was inclined towards idolatry? Or according to the Etz Yosef<\/em> commentary, that he was in the form of \u201cthat ye go not about after your own heart,\u201d is it heresy? According to what we learn about the work of God, that it is solely about the aim to bestow, if a person works in order to receive, this work is foreign to us, for we need to work only to bestow, and he took everything in order to receive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the meaning of what he said, that he failed in \u201cgo not about after your own heart.\u201d In other words, he could not take the eating from the Tree of Knowledge in order to bestow, but received the eating from the Tree of Knowledge in order to receive. This is called \u201cheart,\u201d meaning the heart wishes only to receive for one\u2019s own benefit. And this was the sin of the Tree of Knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To understand this matter, see the introduction to the book Panim Masbirot<\/em>. And from this we can understand the benefits of the society\u2014it can introduce a different atmosphere\u2014one of working only in order to bestow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Article No. 12, 1984 It is known that one is always among people who have no connection to the work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":6243,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"topic":[26],"class_list":["post-9376","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-rabash"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n