How can we rise along the rungs of spiritual elevation? Kabbalists answer that it is by means of the light that returns to the source.

During the study of Kabbalistic sources with the correct intention, we arouse the surrounding lights, and as it is written in the “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot,” the surrounding light that comes awakens a person, gives him strength, and the person rises from their degree to a higher one and from that degree to an even higher one.

One must not expect that in my current state I will feel better; this will not happen! On the contrary, if a person does not advance toward the surrounding light and lags behind “the general time,” then he descends, and begins to feel worse and worse until the sufferings bring him to the understanding that he ought to begin to rise, since to change a state means to rise.

And one can rise by means of the light that returns to the source. This constitutes the entire principle of realizing “Jacob’s ladder.” It is immutable and we are all on it.

So it is necessary to become aware of the state we are in, understand the reason we feel bad and how we can be saved, and bring the means of deliverance into action: the study of Kabbalah with the intention to rise. And the closer a person is to the surrounding light in his intention during study, the more strongly this light influences him, and the faster, accordingly, the person rises.

We know that connection in the spiritual is determined by similarity of qualities. The closer a person’s intentions are to bestowal and the farther they are from his own ego, the stronger is the influence of the light on him. Therefore when beginning to study, it is necessary to arm oneself with such an intention, and then we will indeed be able to rise along the spiritual degrees and feel attain a sense of well-being.

This is precisely what the Creator desires: that each of us should find a degree on which he will feel good. Then a person will discover that this is not enough for him and that an even greater pleasure exists. And so on until the very end of correction when he will see that he is in absolute good.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/7/26, Rabash, “The Connection between Passover, Matza, and Maror”

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