Unity Day - December 7, 2025. Festive Lesson
Selected Excerpts from the sources
1. Baal HaSulam, Shamati, Article No. 197, "Book, Author, Story"
"Book, author, story. A book is considered prior to creation. An author is the owner of the book. An author is the unification of the author and the book, which should assume the form of a story, that is, the Torah along with the Giver of the Torah."
2. RABASH, Article No. 49, "Our Faith in Books and Authors"
"The townspeople bought a diamond, and everyone were happy that they bought the diamond for so little money. But one of them asked if the diamond they had bought was real.
However, none among the townspeople knew about diamonds, so they went to an expert dealer to tell them if the diamond was real or fake. They were happy with his reply that the diamond was real.
But one of them asked if they could trust the dealer, since he could be a crook. Therefore, he himself wants to learn the trade and be an expert in his own right, and he learns and succeeds.
The lesson is that we can believe our engagement in Torah and Mitzvot [commandments] when we rely on faith that we received from books and authors."
3. Baal HaSulam, "Foreword to The Book of Zohar", No. 8
"The upper lights are called Sefer [book], as it is written in The Book of Creation, Chapter One, Mishnah One, “He created His world in three books: A book, an author, and a story.” It is also written, “The sky will be rolled up like a book” (Isaiah 34).
The disclosure of the wisdom in each book is not in the white in it, but only in the colors, meaning in the ink, from which the letters in the book, in the combinations of wisdom, come to the reader. […]
Correspondingly, the world of Atzilut, which is Hochma, is all Godliness and is like the white in the book. This means that we have no perception in it whatsoever, but the whole disclosure in the book of heaven is in the Sefirot Bina, Tifferet, and Malchut, which are the three worlds BYA, as they are considered the ink in the book of heaven."
4. RABASH, Article No. 30 (1988), "What to Look For in the Assembly of Friends"
"Love of friends that is built on the basis of love of others, by which they can achieve the love of the Creator, is the opposite of what is normally considered love of friends. In other words, love of others does not mean that the friends will love me. Rather, it is I who must love the friends. For this reason, it makes no difference if the friend slanders him and must certainly hate him. Instead, a person who wishes to acquire love of friends because of love of others, that person needs the correction of loving the other.
Therefore, when a person makes the effort and judges him to the side of merit, it is a Segula [remedy/power/virtue], where by the toil that a person makes, which is called “an awakening from below,” he is given strength from above to be able to love all the friends without exception."
5. Baal HaSulam, Letter No. 11
"I will also ask that you make great efforts in love of friends, to devise tactics that can increase the love among the friends and revoke the lust for bodily matters from among you, as this is what casts hate, and among those who give contentment to their Maker there shall be no hatred. Rather, there are great compassion and love between them."
6. Baal HaSulam, Letter No. 47
"Let me remind you of the validity of love of friends in spite of everything at this time, for it is upon this that our right to exist depends, and upon this our near-to-come success is measured.
Hence, turn away from all the imaginary engagements and set your hearts on thinking thoughts and devising proper tactics to truly connect your hearts as one, so the words “Love your friend as yourself” will literally come true in you, for a verse does not reach beyond the literal, and you will be cleaned by the thought of love that will cover all crimes. Test me in that, and begin to truly connect in love, and then you will see, “the palate will taste.”"
7. Baal HaSulam, Letter No. 13
"Indeed, I feel all of you together, that today has been replaced for you with tomorrow, and instead of “now,” you say “later.” There is no cure for this but to exert to understand that mistake and distortion—that one who is saved by the Creator is saved only if he needs salvation today. One who can wait for tomorrow will obtain his understanding after his years, God forbid.
This happened to you due to negligence in my request to exert in love of friends, as I have explained to you in every possible way that this cure is enough to recompense for all your faults."
8. Baal HaSulam, Letter No. 49
"I order you to begin to love one another as yourselves with all your might, to ache with your friends’ pains, and rejoice in your friends’ joys as much as possible. I hope that you will keep these words of mine and execute this matter to the fullest."
9. Baal HaSulam, Letter No. 47
"I have established for you conducts by which you can still hang on and not turn back.
And the single most special one among them is the Dvekut of friends. I sincerely promise that this love is able. And I shall remind you of every good thing that you need. And if you nonetheless braced yourselves in that, you would certainly go from strength to strength on the rungs of holiness."
10. Zohar for All, Shlach Lecha, “The Spies", Item 68
"Happy are those who engage in Torah Lishma [for Her sake], since they truly connect to the Creator, and they are called “brothers and friends,” as it is written, “For the sake of my brothers and friends, I will say, ‘Let peace be in you.’”
11. Zohar for All, Aharei Mot [After the Death], "Behold, How Good and How Pleasant", Item 66
"And you, the friends who are here, as you were in fondness and love before, henceforth you will also not part until the Creator rejoices with you and summons peace upon you. And by your merit there will be peace in the world, as it is written, “For the sake of my brothers and my friends let me say, ‘Let peace be in you.’”
12. Zohar for All, Aharei Mot [After the Death], "Behold, How Good and How Pleasant", Item 65
“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to also sit together.” These are the friends as they sit together, and are not separated from each other. At first, they seem like people at war, wishing to kill one another. Then they return to being in brotherly love.
The Creator says about them, “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to also sit together” The word, “also,” comes to include the Shechina with them. Moreover, the Creator listens to their words and He has contentment and delights with them, as it is written, “Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord listened and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him.”