In the Study of the Ten Sefirot, we study how the development of the rungs takes place from above downward, from the Creator to this world. We see that each rung gives birth to a lower one by inverting itself, and by completely ceasing to be what it is.

It is like a seed planted in the ground that must completely decompose and rot so that a tree, something new, can grow from it. Therefore, moving from one rung to another is like crossing an abyss, like jumping over something that does not have a smooth transition from one state to the next.

The means of making this transition is called “above reason”; it is when what I see, know, and think about now on my current rung, I must, as it were, trample underfoot, cross out, and want to receive a higher fulfillment. How is this possible?

The means of acquiring higher reason is called Bina, the quality of Chafetz Hesed, where a person completely ceases to be a receiver and stops feeling and measuring himself within the Kelim of reception. This means that he does not use his nature and adheres to the upper one as an embryo (Ubar), that is, he neutralizes his receiving Kelim, and wants simply to be connected with the upper one.

These are leaps from the reason of the lower one to the quality of Bina, and then to the reason of the upper one, where he works with the receiving Kelim of a higher degree, and receives fulfillment accordingly. In essence, these are the stages of advancement.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/24/26, Rabash, “What Is a Flood of Water in the Work?”

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