Question: What is the difference between a descent and exile, and how can we avoid confusing them?

Answer: A descent is the loss of the importance of spirituality in my eyes. I feel that compared to what I had before, I have now fallen and no longer value spirituality as I once did. A descent is necessary to lead me to a subsequent ascent.

Exile is a state where I have no connection to spirituality at all, not with descents nor with ascents. I am simply disconnected from spirituality, meaning I don’t feel more or less connected to it, and it doesn’t concern me.

If it does concern me, if I feel much worse than I did yesterday, then it is not exile, but a descent through which the Creator is urging me to return to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/20, “Questions from World Kli”

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