When Do the Gates to the Creator Open?

239It is as our sages write: “All the gates were locked except for the gates of tears.” The world asks about this: If the gates of tears are not locked, what is the need for the gates at all? (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 18, “My Soul Shall Weep In Secret”)

The gate of tears opens only when a person is convinced that all other gates are locked and there is nothing before him. Then he bursts into crying and pleading, and he sees that the gate of tears is opening before him.

Question: It turns out that there are a lot of obstacles before a person. However, it is written: “All the gates were locked except for the gate of tears.” So, if they are open, why not enter them immediately?

Answer: No, a person does not feel that they are open. Only if he makes sure that all the gates are locked and cries from his own helplessness: “What to do!”—then he sees that the gate of tears is open before him.

Question: What in our life can be the gate that is locked?

Answer: Locked and open gates are the coupling of a person with the Creator. Either he sees that they are closed or he sees that they are open. That is, this is coupling by striking (Zivug de Hakaa), the equivalence of qualities.

If our qualities correspond with the qualities of the Creator, then at some stage the gates open.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/6/22

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