If you knew your proximity to the goal you might give up, or on the contrary, run toward it egoistically. In other words, you couldn’t move forward, Above Reason.
You go, doing all you can, until the end. The Creator knows when the end is.
Just to support and not be against. They don’t need to study or be actively interested in it.
Look, I married someone who studied with us, and moreover I actively checked with others to ensure she was solidly a part of it. But that’s not required and may not even be possible for everyone. The standard is what I said: supportive and not against because this is my soul and you can take anything else from me but not this.
They need to eventually learn that I’m on this path, for life, and a certain amount of my free time will be dedicated to it. And they need to fully support that.
No, no – do whatever you want with romantic love. That’s nothing more than what birds do when the male dances in front of the female. It’s on the animate level. Kabbalah deals with higher things.
That said, Kabbalists always tried to be married so that the animate body of ours is taken care of and doesn’t bother us about that.
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