Shamati 23

[Zsolt Hermann]

23. You that Love the Lord, Hate Evil

I heard on Sivan 17, June 2, 1931

In the verse, “O ye that love the Lord, hate evil; He preserveth the souls of His saints; He delivered them out of the hand of the wicked,” he interprets that it is not enough to love the Creator, and to want to be awarded adhesion with the Creator. One should also hate the evil.

The matter of hatred is expressed by hating the evil, called “the will to receive.” And one sees that one has no artifice to be rid of it, and at the same time one does not want to accept the situation. And one feels the loses that the evil causes him, and also sees the truth, that one cannot annul the evil on by himself, since it is a natural force by the Creator, who has imprinted the will to receive in man.

In that state, the verse tells us what one can do, meaning hate the evil. And by that the Creator will keep him from that evil, as it is written, “He preserveth the souls of His saints.” What is the preservation? “He delivered them out of the hand of the wicked.” In that state, one is already a successful person, since he has some contact with the Creator, be it the tiniest connection.

In fact, the matter of evil remains and serves as an Achoraim (Posterior) to the Partzuf. It is only by correcting a person, where through hating the evil in earnest truth it is corrected into a form of Achoraim. The hatred comes because if one wants to obtain adhesion with the Creator, then there is a conduct among friends and pals: if two people come to realize thateach hates what one’s friend hates, and loves what and whom one’s friend loves, then they come into a perpetual bonding, as a stake that will never fall.

Hence, since the Creator loves to bestow, the lower ones should also adapt to want only to bestow. The Creator also hates to be a receiver, as He is completely whole and does not need a thing. Thus, man too must hate the matter of reception for oneself.

It follows from all the above, that one must bitterly hate the will to receive, for all the ruins in the world come only from the will to receive. And through the hatred one corrects it, and it surrenders under the Kedusha (Sanctity).

we have to build such a love of bestowal in between us that we start hating our evil to the extent that we cannot tolerate it any longer

and if we have done everything we could and still do not have the insatiable, unfulfilled, burning love for "the Lord" we have to pray together to receive it from Above

[staffancarle]

this work of love and hatred seems like something private at first, but if we can do it in a circle together the creator will hear us for sure