In the article “A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar,” Baal HaSulam writes that the difference in qualities from the Creator is checked first and foremost according to a person’s thoughts. If a person thinks about himself, asks questions: “Do I exist or not, what will happen to me, what is the meaning of life?” and so on, from which everything begins, it means that he is immersed in himself, enclosed in his shell, as it is said, turned “facing himself.”

Then, of course, he is cut off from the Creator, since the Creator has no thoughts about Himself that are directed inward toward Himself. He has only the thought of bestowal, to do good, directed outwardly. Therefore, these thoughts, even the most general ones, such as “do I exist?”,  separate a person from the Creator.

Question: But don’t these thoughts also come from the Creator?

Answer: Naturally! All thoughts come from Him. They come in order for you to pay attention to them. A person is never punished for who he is at the given moment.

It is only in our world that if a person steals, he is sent to prison. In the Torah, it is not like that! If you steal, the very act itself is called the punishment, and now you must carry out the corrections. The act itself is the reward or the punishment.

But punishment does not mean that a person is being punished; he simply, in accordance with his actions, comes to another degree, from which he begins to advance again.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/5/26, Rabash, “What Does, ‘Everything that Comes to Be a Burnt Offering Is Male,’ Mean in the Work?”

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