Looking at Oneself from the Outside

232.1Question: How does fear of the future allow you to add something extra, that is, to look at this fear from the outside?

Answer: I can view my fear from the outside only if I acquire some quality of Creator. We are not talking about animalistic fears, although there is a certain reflection of it even there. I need different Kelim to see and determine my state.

Had the shattering of the Kelim not occurred and had new foreign qualities not entered the soul (the desire to receive), we would never have been able to react, think, or look at ourselves at least somewhat objectively. But now, a person can see himself a little bit, as if from the outside.

This is a consequence of the shattering of the Kelim. Animals do not have this, but humans do. The more developed people are (I am referring to the animal level), the more they can see themselves from the outside and analyze. Psychology and other sciences are based on this. You do not have to study Kabbalah for this.

But where does it come from? As a result of the breakage in us, our animalistic Kelim acquired qualities that make us human rather than animals.

We feel the past and future from the present, and we can look at ourselves, examine ourselves, as if objectively, from the outside, much like psychologists do. For example, Freud wrote about himself, as if observing from the outside, exploring his own behavior from childhood to the moment he became a psychologist.

This approach can be developed for the entire creation and for all humankind from a spiritual perspective, from the perspective of the Creator. When one crosses the Machsom and acquires a spiritual Kli, in which he separates himself from his desires, from caring for himself, from attributing everything to his own “I,” and instead accepts the Creator’s view of himself, this is the most objective form possible.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/27/26, Rabash, “What Is the Work of Man, in the Work that Is Attributed to the Creator?”

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