So is the nature—he craves and each time imagines that he is already marching on the highway. And suddenly, he looks back to the place from which he came, and then leaves the highway and reconnects with the uneducated people and follows them (RABASH, Letter 21).

The fact is that a person needs to leave the straight path in order to feel the need for the Creator’s help.

On one hand, if we do not have disappointments and all kinds of feelings of weakness on the spiritual path, then we do not need the help of the Creator. On the other hand, how can we descend into states where we need His help? We do not need to avoid difficulties. We just have to plunge into them and see that we cannot move forward, that the Creator specifically arranges all kinds of descents for us, from which we shout and ask Him to help us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/18/23, “The need for the Creator’s salvation”

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