If a person exerts and sees that he is slipping backward, it is a sign that one is in the process of revealing a new Kli. What does “backward” mean? A vessel without fulfillment is being revealed to him. This means that he has entered the left line, the revelation of a new Kli, a new Achoraim (back side), and he continues to advance but in a negative form, with an even greater sense of emptiness.

Later, he will fill this emptiness with corrections and lights. This simply means that, for the time being, he is in the left line. Then he will enter the right line, and from the alternation between the right and left lines we experience what we call descents and ascents. In reality, these are neither descents nor ascents; they are simply the two stages of correction. Left, right, left, right; that is how we advance.

Naturally, when a person is in the left line, he feels empty, and it seems to him that he is moving backward. In fact, he has gone backward, descended even farther from spirituality in order to take Kelim (vessels) from an even lower level.

More precisely, he hasn’t even descended; he was lowered. This is a sign that he is ultimately worthy of correcting these Kelim. Therefore, a person who already has experience in the work rejoices when he feels despair, confusion, and a lack of clarity in his perceptions. He is glad to experience states that he cannot fully understand, glad even to feel lost.

This is a sign that new vessels are being added to him. With experience, we come to see that this is indeed the case.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/2/26, Rabash, “What Does It Mean that the Torah Was Given Out of the Darkness in the Work? ”

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