We have an obligation of " You shall love your friend like yourself", which is a great principle of the Torah. How can it be fulfilled? It is against nature to love someone who is to you a stranger. However by joining to tsaddikim, all those who joined them are like one family. Slowly they learn to love one another. First to love the tsaddik, then members of his household, then all who joined him... and the commandment is fulfilled through this.
Ginzei Yisroel (Tshortkov), 2:206
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