Question: What determines creation’s ability to experience the suffering of the Shechina?

Answer: The suffering of the Shechina means that a person who acquires a vessel of bestowal senses suffering in them. To the extent that one feels a desire to bestow to the Creator, he perceives that these vessels are precisely what the Creator wishes to give him. Prior to that, we do not sense this.

When we speak about the suffering of the Shechina, does anyone really feel it? “The Shechina in the dust…” We tend to think that “the Shechina in the dust” is merely a state in which we do not sense the Creator. However, such a state is actually called concealment. When we experience suffering from the fact that the Creator is unable bestow, which I can sense only to the extent of my own desire to bestow to Him, this is what is called the suffering of the Shechina.

In other words, this is similar to two people, one of whom does not sense the other. The latter cries out, weeps, and is miserable, but the first person does not understand what is happening. “Why is he crying? Should I go and ask?” If this person is an absolute stranger to me, then I begin to sense his sorrow only if I have a desire to become closer to him and love him. I begin to feel his suffering according to my own vessels.

Therefore, the suffering of the Shechina because she cannot bestow to me and my suffering because I cannot bestow to her create a common single vessel. We meet inside this vessel and engage in mutual bestowal upon one another, there we exist in bonding. Thus, the Shechina is the place of bonding between the Creator and creation.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/24/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘When Israel Are in Exile, the Shechina Is with Them,’ in the Work?”

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