Question: How can one clearly demonstrate “From Your actions we know You”?

Answer: It is very simple. For example, I see someone performing a certain action. I don’t know why or what their purpose is. I come to them with my mind, because I don’t have their “head,” and only the action is revealed to me. And so, through my desire, my capabilities, my own “mind,” I begin to emulate them in their actions; I want to act together with them.

There are such examples in our world. We see it in education when children gradually become like us, they wish to be like us. In spiritual action, it looks like this: the Creator gives to me, and I want to delight Him, to do the same for Him. By asking Him for strength, I become similar to Him in this action: He gives, and I act toward Him in the same way; that is, I reach a state where I receive His intentions, His “head” (Rosh).

What am I doing, trying to be like Him? I study the material (the desire) He works on, His attitude toward it, the form in which He is revealed in the material. In reality, I progress from bottom to top, from effect to cause.

It is said: “There is no blade of grass below without an angel above, striking it and saying: ‘Grow.’” By understanding the blade of grass, its material and how the angel acts upon it to grow, I begin to know the angel, through the processes he employs.

I associate myself with his actions, I want to be exactly like him, and through this, the same “head” (Rosh) is formed within me. Thus, we become equal in the action he performs.

What is common between us is the relationship to the material He created and the desire He realizes within it. That is, I already relate to my own desires as a laboratory experiment, beginning to separate my “self” from my body and regarding it as the place where we can be similar and merged.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/10/26, Rabash, “What Are the Two Actions During a Descent?”

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