Question: We say that ascents and descents yield two results. On one hand, a person is shown how far he is from the goal, and on the other hand, it becomes more important to him. Where does this feeling of importance come from?

Answer: The goal becomes more important to us because a person invests himself, his efforts, in it. This happens just as it does in our ordinary lives.

If I invest a lot in something, I bring a part of myself into it. And because I love myself, I cannot give it up anymore. I sacrificed so much for it, tried so hard, worked so hard, cared for it so much, I cannot just abandon it. Thus, the goal and the whole undertaking become very important to a person.

Moreover, as he advances, an increasingly strong surrounding light influences him according to his investment and his work. This light fills a new Kli, the point in the heart, and a person feels that true life comes from there. And he feels the rest of his animate life as temporary and of having less and less importance for him.

A person comes to the realization that spirituality is more important than corporeality, while still here, when he enters simple concealment. He already begins to sense that the upper force exists, and in some way feels the presence of the Creator. Then all events that happen to him in life, and everything that happens in the world around him, lose their significance. The surrounding light radiates eternity.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/13/26, Rabash, “And the Lord Appeared to Him at the Oaks of Mamre”

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