What is the best time in the process of spiritual work to exert effort and advance? Any time. There is no time that is not meant for this! In every state, a person has an opportunity to take a step toward the purpose of creation, toward adhesion with the Creator, toward eternity, perfection, and attainment—to bestowal. But in each state, this can be done in a different form.

There are states in which a person can do nothing but raise a prayer, yet prayer itself includes both gratitude and a request. And there are times when a person can only thank the Creator. But gratitude itself also stems from a deficiency (Hisaron), an unfulfilled desire; otherwise, to whom, for what, and about what would one be grateful?

It is impossible to turn to the Creator without two aspects being present in that appeal: a negative one and a positive one. Otherwise, there is no appeal at all! We learn that the advantage of the light is revealed from within the darkness, and that any concept can be discerned only in comparison with its opposite.

Black letters are visible against a white background, against the background of light. Thus, every Havchana (discernment or gradation in sensation) that a person feels, sees, or expresses always consists of two opposites.

Therefore, in our lives, while on the path, although we are startled each time we are flung from one state to another as if by a sling, we must nevertheless remember that within creation there is always both the nature of the created being and the nature of the Creator.

Thus, from any state I can look through the eyes of the created being or through the eyes of the Creator. Then it turns out that with respect to every phenomenon, I am seemingly capable of making different decisions. I can go above reason and decide that nothing else matters to me, or I can tell myself that I am incapable of moving from where I stand. I can justify every state, or on the contrary, I can reject it completely.

So where is the truth?

The truth is at the end.

Before we arrive at the end of correction (Gmar Tikkun), where all opposites unite, there is no truth. There is only the path and the states along it. Therefore we can never judge anything with absolute certainty, to do so would be childish.

We must always be aware that we are the sensing part of reality, and that everything that happens to us is necessary so that we may become wiser, feel more deeply, acquire experience, gather Reshimot (spiritual informational records), and continue onward with them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/7/26, Rabash, “What Are the Times of Prayer and Gratitude in the Work?”

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