Question: To progress from a good state to an even better one, you need to be conscious of your current state. How can you do this without descending to a lower level?

Answer: To descend to a lower level means following bodily desires. At some point, each of us feels the urge to run away and hide in some quiet, warm, peaceful corner. When I am in trouble, I think, “I want nothing, not even something good. I want to utterly limit my desires just not to feel anything.”

As soon as there is an opportunity to get something and feel good, a desire instantly arises to get more and more, to the point that a person wants to consume the whole world. Whereas in a difficult moment, all desires disappear except one: Give me some quiet corner, just so I can be at peace.

It all depends on the external conditions a person finds oneself in. We should not think about our desires, because at the right moment, you will feel the right desire. We should only think about how to make the external conditions awaken us more.

Everything that a person feels in every state, at any stage, from the lowest to the highest, is a sensation of the Creator. There is nothing else to feel except Him. The sensation of the Creator in our current state is called our world. Because our senses, our Kelim, are opposite to Him, we feel this world is so bad. But to the extent we succeed in reaching similarity of properties with the Creator, our sensations will become better.

We should not talk about the size of our Kelim. We should be concerned about their nature.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/7/26, Rabash, “The Connection between Passover, Matza, and Maror”

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