The wisdom of Kabbalah differs from simple popular blind faith in that it speaks about the work during descents, distancing, and rejections from the Creator through all kinds of events in our life.

We may be ready to say, “There is none else besides the Creator.” After all, it sounds correct and good that there is only one force that creates everything and governs everything. But we forget this the moment we feel rejection from that force when we receive various problems that seem unfair.

Moreover, it turns out that these are all pre-planned for each of us by the Creator from the very beginning of creation, as everything has already been predetermined until the end of correction. That is why our whole life is a movie, to which we must add “620 times more” through our own efforts and specifically during times of distancing.

The main work happens during a descent. The Creator makes the path heavier for us by sending various troubles, problems, and concealments, and placing obstacles in front of us. But we know how to overcome all this, and it is not by heroically jumping over all the obstacles.

True overcoming lies in attributing all the obstacles and the heaviness of the heart to the Creator, and not asking for them to be removed. The obstacles are actually the degrees by which we must ascend.

Each time the desire to receive pleasure grows, a problem arises as an invitation from the Creator to rise and affirm His oneness on a higher degree. That is why we live from problem to problem, from disappointment to disappointment, from fear to awe. But it is precisely in this that we must see the Creator’s grace because He does not leave us, but pushes us forward.

This is how it happens with the whole nation of Israel as a collective, and with each individual person who is advancing toward their final corrected state. It is precisely during descents that we have the opportunity to ask the Creator for help. It turns out that the descents are those states in which the Creator invites a person to draw closer, and precisely through overcoming the confusion and disturbances meant to separate us from Him.

If, despite all the obstacles, we declare that they come from the Creator in order to make us ask Him for help to rise above them toward greater adhesion, then the obstacles become a means of connection, the very glue with which we adhere to the Creator.

It turns out the obstacles were actually helpful in leading to a request, in response to which a person receives from the Creator the force of bestowal, of faith above reason, above the disturbances. And this is how he advances.

Therefore, our work is in rejoicing over the disturbances as opportunities to ask the Creator to draw closer to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/24/19, “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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