Initially every person exists on the level of idol worshippers. Each one must examine all of one’s thoughts, desires, intentions, and future state (what one wants to know and attain and how one wants to feel and see one’s entire environment and themself) and determine whether all of this converges into a single point called the Creator.

But if a person has not directed their future data to this point called the Creator, they are forbidden to use the force of the Torah for advancement. First, one must clarify what is possible at one’s level.

When one completes these clarifications and asks for strength to advance so that the surrounding light will come to them, heal them, advance them, draw them closer to holiness, and give them a stronger feeling of the divine, that “There is none else besides Him”, then, after such an awakening, additional obstacles and confusion will descend upon them.

These obstacles will be more subtle; they will serve to orient one with greater precision (operating within a narrower scope (much like measuring distance in meters or alternatively in millimeters or microns). This becomes clear from the obstacles that befall a person: They will show more precisely how much more sensitive he has become, how in places where he previously saw only coarse things, he now distinguishes finer, sharper details.

Although it may appear to us that the very same obstacles (the same setbacks and confusions) are constantly recurring, each time we examine them, we perceive the underlying picture and discern its ultimate purpose with a sharper vision, through more subtle qualities, and with greater precision.

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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/26, Rabash, “The Meaning of the Strict Prohibition to Teach Idol Worshippers the Torah”

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