However, before we achieve the completion of the degree, we cannot know anything for certain. This is called “learning first, understanding next.”

A little one, who begins to eat bread, still has no knowledge, but only of the bread. And when beginning to grow, he begins to understand that there is a reason for the bread, which causes the shape of the bread (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 166, “Two Discernments in Attainment”).

Question: How can one feel the attainment of the spiritual degree if it is impossible to talk about the final result?

Answer: In our world we also do not see the final state, but gradually, from degree to degree, from state to state, we attain partial causes and results, then another cause, and another partial result. And so we rise through the steps of attainment.

Question: By uniting in tens, how do we transfer some states from one to another if it is impossible to fix something in common?

Answer: But this is how we learn. That is not yet attainment, but simply steps to the Creator like in school and as in life. As explained in the example of a child who through the fact that he is given bread to eat, begins to understand where it comes from and what it is. So it is here.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/12/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Two Discernments in Attainment”

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