Question: Can we say that there are also degrees in this world; it is that only we do not see them?

Answer: Of course there are degrees in this world too. This whole stage is called “the time of preparation,” and here, naturally, there are many states preceding the Machsom. First of all, the preparation period spans thousands of years, which we pass through in all our reincarnations.

We have passed through animalistic desires, the desire for money, honor, and knowledge, and the desire for spirituality. All this constitutes the duration of our reincarnations; all this is the time of preparation. Naturally, there are degrees here, periods of descents and ascents.

Each time a little more surrounding light is revealed from above and a greater will to receive is revealed from below. A person suddenly again begins to be drawn to money; unexpectedly, one’s own ambition awakens; a person begins to worry about their position in society and why they do not receive support from it.

Temptations are supplied to a person from above, they are enticed by the possibility of becoming rich, of attaining power, and so on. This happens so that they will study themself and become aware of their aspirations and weaknesses and their insignificance in confronting enticing pleasures, so that they will study what the will to enjoy created by the Creator is.
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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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