Question: What does it mean to pass the Machsom?

Answer: To pass the Machsom means to establish the first connection with the Creator regardless of the sensation He gives me. Moreover, I do not measure, nor can I measure what this sensation is.

I need to establish a connection with Him based on my perceiving the quality of bestowal even to the smallest degree, and determining that it is more important to me than any of my sensations. This is because I want to adhere to Him so that bestowal becomes something shared between Him and me and serves as the connection between us.

In other words, I define the upper one as the giver, and I find within myself this measure of the giver, the giver’s intention against the background of the unpleasant sensation that I can perform a Tzimtzum on as though it does not matter to me whether I have it or not.

Instead, I raise the point of bestowal within me above all my AHP. It is called my Galgalta ve Eynaim. The AHP seems not to exist, and I feel that through Galgalta ve Eynaim, this point of bestowal, I am connected to the upper one and exist within Him like an embryo. This is the beginning of my connection with the upper one.

In this way, I enter the “pillar” of degrees through which I will ascend and grow.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/13/26, Rabash, Letter No. 23, 1956

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