A person’s spiritual need can be fulfilled only if we agree with the actions of the Creator in darkness. After all, in the light of revelation, it is easy for us to agree that the Creator has done good to us. But it is precisely in darkness and concealment that it must be said that these too are actions of the Creator.

A person feels that he has no connection with the revelation of the Creator in his world, and that this connection depends on him, on whether he strives for it or not. The Creator wants to bring a person to the understanding that everything depends on his connection with the Creator. And then the revelation of the Creator to a person is called light and connection, while separation from the Creator is called darkness and evil. And so a person progresses from evil to good, from darkness to light. Any advancement is a sequence of concealment and revelation of the Creator.

The Torah gives us a solution. If we act for the sake of taking a step toward the Creator, then we will perceive any revelation of the Creator as happiness. However, if we do not strive to come closer to Him, then we will perceive the revelation of a new state as evil.

Invite and draw the Creator into what is happening so that it becomes revealed that it was the Creator who acted is the solution.

We cause all the evil and misery in the world by choosing the force of evil. But if we choose the force of good, then peace reigns in the world. Our only choice is to attribute everything that happens to the Creator. And the more of what happens in reality that we can attribute to the Creator, the more we strengthen this force of “There is none else besides Him.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/1/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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