In our vast desire to enjoy there is a spark, the embryo of the soul. Therefore, everything that comes from the Creator must be divided into two parts: one acts in relation to the desire for pleasure, which is called “body,” egoism, and another that acts in relation to the soul, the purpose of creation, in order to grow this point and make it more and more like the Creator, raising it up the steps of the spiritual ladder.

Therefore, where sinners stumble, the righteous rejoice and rise. After all, sinners and righteous are the evil and good inclinations.

A person who does not work for the Creator cries about the difficulties of life, and the other perceives this difficulty as hitting, not himself, but his egoistic desire to enjoy. Therefore, he sees a means to ascend to the Creator in it. This is how the Creator awakens him and helps him annul his egoism and cling to a point in his heart, to the upper force.

This is how you should relate to every moment of your life. The Creator sends “obstacles” to everyone. If a person understands these unpleasant influences are sent to crush one’s egoistic desire, the person rejoices. After all, now one can consider this blow to be to one’s ego and try to cling to the Creator with the point in one’s heart and rise even higher.

It turns out all our obstacles are calls to make an effort to overcome them correctly, in order to hold on to the Creator more tightly. Unpleasant feelings work against our ego, pointing to its presence and helping us crush it.

A person is not required to fight, we must only separate and filter out the influence of the Creator, directing the bad influence toward our ego and the good to help us adhere to the Creator and raise the point in the heart. Therefore, “where the righteous will pass, sinners will stumble.”

The Creator is already fighting for us by sending us obstacles. There are no enemies in the King’s abode to fight. We just need to attribute the problems sent from above to our ego to suppress it further and raise the point in the heart more and more.

Then we will see the Creator is doing this work, which is called the work of the Creator. The Creator is waging this war and will complete it for me. He will do everything; each time I just need to be sensitive and correctly determine where the Creator’s unpleasant influence is directed, how it hits my ego, and invites my point in my heart.

A person should always divide himself in two: into an egoistic desire, that must be crushed, stopped from being used, restricted; and into a point in the heart, which, at every opportunity, must be directed toward merging with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/22/2018, “From Interference to Ascents”

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