It is very difficult for us to understand for what purpose we must perform spiritual work, and why the Creator created the world in such a way that we have to exert effort. If He is omnipotent, why did He not create the final state from the outset? And if it already exists and we are already in it, why didn’t He make it so that we would feel this perfect state (Gmar Tikkun) immediately?

Why must we open our eyes and develop the organ of perception of the spiritual, called the screen (Masach) and the reflected light (Ohr Hozer) since it is only then that will we feel where we truly are and perceive true reality?

We are told that all this is because of shame. We ask: Why did He create shame? And we are told that shame is a correction, and that if we do not correct ourselves, we will not feel the goodness that has been prepared for us.

We must acquire the greatness and importance of the Creator, the giver. Our attitude toward Him must be with the intention for the sake of bestowal. A Kli (vessel) with an altruistic intention is an eternal Kli that never disappears and is never emptied. On the contrary, it becomes increasingly filled.

There are many more explanations used to “justify” our present state, and a person may live by them for a long time until one acquires a second nature, the nature of the Creator.

But before that, a person is incapable of understanding or agreeing with the states they have to go through, because the definitions they hold now are opposite to the definitions they will have afterward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/23/26, Rabash, “What Is the Importance of the Groom, that His Iniquities Are Forgiven?”

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