Before crossing the Machsom, a person does not know where one is. Even immediately after one crosses the Machsom, a person still does not know where they are; they sense the spiritual, but only like an infant, like an embryo in its mother’s womb. They practice self-nullification; but still do not posses a screen, other than the one they received in order to neutralize their ego and remain in spirituality in a passive form, as a spectator.

This is not yet an active form, the stage where they would be able to absorb the lights and from the sensation of the lights in the vessels, feel what the spiritual world is, and gradually begin to grow like an infant in this world.

Only upon entering the spiritual degree do they begin the stage of “9 months of gestation,” but this is something completely different: now they are inside the mother (Ima) and do not need to be concerned with self-preservation in terms of falling from that state.

They must only take care not to spoil their presence in spirituality as an embryo in the mother’s womb. Once they have fully developed as an embryo and have formed a greater screen that allow them to receive the lights internally, it signifies that they have been born.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/1/26, Rabash, “Why the Festival of Matzot Is Called Passover”

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