Disconnection from thoughts, knowledge, and the feeling that everything comes from the Creator is carried out for our benefit.

This is the darkness when I disconnect from the Creator, not the darkness of our world where it seems to me that bad is darkness and good is light. I am not even talking about physical light and darkness.

When transitioning to spiritual perceptions and striving to approach a correct understanding that the Creator determines all good and bad feelings within me, I must learn to perceive darkness and light not as feelings within my egoistic desires or understanding in my egoistic mind, but as degrees of connection with the Creator, independent of whether it feels pleasant or unpleasant, clear or unclear.

This is where a person’s disconnection from the Creator occurs, which can be described as a “descent.” These descents, however, are for our benefit. They allow us to examine whether we are truly following the spiritual path.

If I am on the spiritual path, I will begin to perceive descents where I am entirely thrown out of feeling spirituality and will recognize that I am disconnected from the understanding that the Creator forms my entire perception of the world and of myself. When I realize this, it is considered “day,” when I do not, it is “night,” or darkness.

Therefore it is said that a descent a person experiences is for his benefit. We must move away from egoistic perceptions where good is seen as an ascent and bad as a descent. Instead we should begin to evaluate descents and ascents based on their alignment with the purpose of our development: what brings us closer to the goal is an ascent and what distances us from the goal is a descent.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “The Work in Concealment”

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