Question: What does it mean to keep oneself in the right state during a descent?

Answer: In a state of descent we must still keep ourselves connected to the Creator. After all, a descent is not truly a descent; we simply stop feeling closeness to the Creator, but this does not mean we are distancing from Him.

On the contrary, these are the states when we need to draw Him even closer to us. Thus, it is from this state of relative descent that we will begin to rise higher and higher.

Question: Elders develop a certain technique for going through states of descent, and they patiently go through everything. This patience, as a habit, does it neutralize the descent and moving through the degrees?

Answer: Not at all; each time it is new work and new effort.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/1/24, Writings of Rabash “Ruin by Elders—Construction; Construction by Youths—Ruin”

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