Question: When a spiritual descent comes, can I immediately understand that
I need to go through it and immerse myself in it?

Answer: You strive for a corrected state, and only then you fall.

Otherwise, if you have not tried your best to achieve a good state, you would not be able to reveal your egoistic fall.

After all, a descent is not a mistake along the way, but a revelation of additional new egoism in you.
You took a barbell, pushed it up with all your might, lifted 100 kg, and suddenly the barbell fell! What happened? You suddenly discover there two more discs of 10 kg each were added.

This is why you broke and fell, you felt their weight, but now you know to ask for the force of correction! After all, you fell with these desires, with the extra 20 kg.

Now you have these desires (Kelim, spiritual vessels, tools), they were revealed against your will, you have felt all this heaviness.

If you ask for extra strength for them now, you can lift 120 kg.

That is, you cannot get the heaviness of the heart until you succeed! And only when you succeed do they add the weight of egoistic desire to you, and you fall!

This is a sign of your success! You managed to gain additional strength to use for correction now.

You can ask: how am I ever successful if every time I rise, I am immediately thrown back down again?

Let me stay at the top for a while, enjoy my achievements, get my medal! Then you can continue.

But no, that is impossible. This is done on purpose so you could learn to enjoy the work
itself, and your reward is the opportunity to give a little more.
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From Kabbalah Lesson 5/26/10, The Book of Zohar

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