Question: How can one experience the Klipa, and where does the desire to leave it and move toward holiness come from?

Answer: Within the framework of our world, we do not perceive this. A person like might find themselves in what is called a Klipa in this world, encountering various situations, and simply get lost in them. In spirituality, it is different. In the spiritual world, a person is brought into a Klipa only to the extent that they attain the right line, the qualities of the Creator, but not before that.

As it is written in the song sung at the end of Shabbat: “There once lived a pious man who lacked the means of his own sustenance. He made his living making clothes, yet he had nothing to wear because he was occupied with studying the Torah.” In other words, the more you study, invest in dissemination, and advance toward spirituality, the more you are brought down into the Klipa. A person who has merited receiving the strength of the Torah is immediately given the left line in a more powerful form.

Otherwise, what would be the point? Simply to cause you pain? That is not the purpose.

Setbacks are sent to you so that through the Klipa, you can understand what form of holiness you must build in opposition to it.

But if you are unable to learn from these experiences, and even after prolonged study and effort you are not sufficiently prepared, you are not brought into the state. That is why it is written: “Anyone who is greater than his friend, his evil inclination is greater.”

To the extent you have grown—studied more, understood more, invested more of yourself—the more your egoism develops because you are given stronger desires and more serious obstacles.

You are brought into the Klipa only to the extent that you are capable of withstanding it and truly using it correctly.

You might object that there are people who studied with us for a long time, and then suddenly some kind of spirit descended upon them and led them away.

The point is that from above, they were given exactly as much as they were destined to receive. They simply failed to make use of what was in their hands. They were given the opportunity to rise through an effective and favorable path, but they did not take it. And the calculation from above is simple: yes or no, without mercy.

When we say that the Creator is merciful, He is merciful only toward those who work. To those who do not work, look at the blows He sends upon humanity and how He advances it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/26, Rabash, “What Is the Work of Man, in the Work that Is Attributed to the Creator?”

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 284

How Can It Be That a Person Who Is in the Midst of the Path Suddenly Regrets “the Former Things”?

What does it mean to regret “the former things”? It means that we regret having started the path at all, having walked on it, and having reached the state we reached. We think that things were better for us at the beginning of the path, that we could have managed without it. Why does this happen each time? It is because we need to examine the reason for walking on our path, and not simply walk on it aimlessly.

In Kabbalah, it is said that the revelation of evil comes to a strong person, one who knows how to cope with it and correct it into good. If we advanced another twenty steps along the path: studied, did all kinds of things in the society, in dissemination, and suddenly we fall and begin to feel that everything is worthless and we regret the path, all the years we wasted on the group, the Rav, and the books, it is a sign that we must value the reason even more, as something greater now, in order to strengthen ourselves in it, and thus, through negativity, we are shown the extent to which we are on the path.

Each time we ascend a degree, we must regret “the former things,” as though examining them, and afterward continue onward. Just as we alternately fail and succeed along our path, so it also happens with regard to the reason for our studies, which is a good sign, but it is much harder to get through this than to survive the changing of various states or moods. If we regret, it is a sign that we are indeed changing degrees, and herein lies a danger. In order for us to truly ascend, so that the regret over “the former things” does not stop us, the society must support us much more than it supports one who simply falls. Here, this is serious work, all of which is preparation.

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