Question: What is the difference between descent and exile, and how can we work with it?

Answer: Descent is the revelation of additional egoistic desires that I need for an ascent. That is, a descent is for the sake of an ascent because one thing cannot be without the other: I fall in order to rise.

Practically, a descent is a part of the ascent. We even have a song: “We are falling upward, we are soaring above ourselves,” which is true. When a person engaged in spiritual work experiences a descent, he is glad because it brings him additional opportunities and understanding of issues he could not identify before.

We must understand that our egoistic intentions, desires, thoughts, and feelings do not just happen to be revealed in us. We see that no one around us thinks like that: “Oh, how egoism is revealed in me!” Have you heard this from any leader or anyone else? There is no such thing.

But if we feel this, we should rejoice because the material for our ascent is being revealed. We call it a descent, but in fact it is an ascent along the left line. And in parallel, in the right line, we are already building our ascent in bestowal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/20, “Questions from World Kli”

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