Through the Torah and Mitzvot [commandments] that a person does, they bring upon him thoughts and desires to want to purify himself (Rabash, Assorted Notes 158, “According to the Sorrow Is the Reward”).

Question: Doesn’t the desire for purification come after a person has felt a state of purity sent to him from above by the Creator?

Answer: No, we cannot act that way. We move from our impurity, from our inner dirt, toward correction. Therefore, we cannot speak of a corrected state manifesting in us before the uncorrected state does.

Question: So does this mean that anything we might be experiencing now as a state of purity is a lie?

Answer: At this point, yes, of course. We do not yet have truly corrected vessels (Kelim). Therefore, all our so-called purity is only uncorrected vessels, which are relatively corrected compared to our egoism.

But even if we are working without constantly thinking about purification, the light in the Torah and the books we study still influence us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/15/24, Writings of Rabash “According to the Sorrow Is the Reward”

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