In our work from below upward, we should not undergo a descent, for “one is raised in holiness, and not lowered.” We merely acquire an ever-higher degree, even if at times it seems to us that we are entering a worse, lower degree in our sensations.

The fact is that our sensations are in the desire to receive, in our ego, and therefore we measure, weigh, and determine that which exists in our egoism. Thus, this sensation is not directed toward the purpose of creation.

I may be rising higher in relation to the goal of creation, yet within my egoistic vessels of reception I feel that I have nothing. If I have nothing, then it seems to me that I am farther from the purpose of creation, for the goal is that I should have everything! But this “everything” is in vessels of bestowal, whereas in the vessels of reception I have nothing.

Therefore if a person analyzes his state with intellect, he can justify the Creator. However, if he is unable to justify the Creator or control his state, he evaluates it according to his sensations—sometimes it feels good, sometimes bad.

If he determines his state according to his mood, he can be regarded neither as a righteous person nor as a sinner. He should be related to as an animal, because an animal acts solely on the basis of sensations, whereas a human being acts on the basis of intellect.

What does it mean, on the basis of intellect? It is necessary that intellect controls the sensations. Of course, a person is not a machine; he has intellect and a heart. But his correction consists in the fact that evaluation on the scale of “truth–false” is more important to him than evaluation on the scale of “sweet–bitter.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/1/26, Rabash, “These Are the Generations of Noah”

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