A true and complete connection to another enables the recipient to comprehend the inner heart of the bestower even in the absence of explicit words. Conversely, the bestower absorbs the mind of the recipient. This includes even words and ideas that have never been expressed.
This is the meaning of the Talmudic statement that a wife performs the will of her husband. She comprehends his will even when it has not been expressed. She knows what is in his innermost heart even when he hasn't expressed it to himself. This is the sign of a true connection.
The reason that will may not have been expressed yet to himself is because he lacks the vessel in which to express it. For example a person who carries within himself new Torah insights but does not share them as he fears that he has no one who will appreciate them. His inner self will only be expressed when there is someone who can accept and retain it. It is only in the merit of the vessel that the will expressed and actualized. She doesn't merely do his will she actualizes it.
This can be true in any relationship, teacher and student or between friends, in each case there is a bestowing of light. One party feels that he is receiving something that is not from himself and makes himself into a receiving vessel by giving himself over to the light. If, however, he does something inwardly that shows resistance to receiving, the giver will feel that his power to bestow has been stopped. His vessel is gone, the relationship is sundered and he cannot continue to bestow. He will refrain from expressing his inner self.
This is the meaning of the Talmudic statement that a wife performs the will of her husband. She comprehends his will even when it has not been expressed. She knows what is in his innermost heart even when he hasn't expressed it to himself. This is the sign of a true connection.
The reason that will may not have been expressed yet to himself is because he lacks the vessel in which to express it. For example a person who carries within himself new Torah insights but does not share them as he fears that he has no one who will appreciate them. His inner self will only be expressed when there is someone who can accept and retain it. It is only in the merit of the vessel that the will expressed and actualized. She doesn't merely do his will she actualizes it.
This can be true in any relationship, teacher and student or between friends, in each case there is a bestowing of light. One party feels that he is receiving something that is not from himself and makes himself into a receiving vessel by giving himself over to the light. If, however, he does something inwardly that shows resistance to receiving, the giver will feel that his power to bestow has been stopped. His vessel is gone, the relationship is sundered and he cannot continue to bestow. He will refrain from expressing his inner self.
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