Question: Fear for life in this world arises in us instinctively, uncontrollably. How can we achieve the same panic and fear of not attaining bestowal?

Answer: We are not powerless before the fear of this world. When a person begins to advance spiritually, he is sent such strange fears that a person begins to understand that this is not real fear, but a game.

He feels that from above, as if by a beam, this fear is being projected to him, and the only thing that can be done is to rise above it by “faith above reason,” in bestowal. After all, if he is in bestowal, he has nothing to fear! He can calmly close his eyes to all the fears that come only in order to force us to rise above concern for ourselves, to teach us to live in the yearning toward bestowal.

This is not just an animalistic, unconscious fear, but rather a state that a person perceives consciously, with some “illumination from the source,” that his feelings are being projected to him from some source with a purpose to advance him. Therefore, he understands that nothing can be without reason, there are no fears for nothing.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/17/10, Rabash, “Concerning Fear and Joy”

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