Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 73

How Do We Progress Without Knowing What to Do?

The solution is simple: Study the process of the four phases of direct light, where the light creates the vessel, builds it, gives it all of its qualities, and then turns the vessel from good to evil and from evil to good, that acts upon it according to its wishes. The same light must continue to work on us; there is no other solution.

Therefore, Baal HaSulam writes in item 155 of his “Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot”:
“Therefore, we must ask, Why then did the Kabbalists obligate every person to study the wisdom of Kabbalah? Indeed, there is a great thing about it, which should be publicized: There is a wonderful, invaluable remedy to those who engage in the wisdom of Kabbalah. Although they do not understand what they are learning… .”

Understanding is not required, only desire and yearning. If we have a yearning, we have the ability to advance. Without yearning, we cannot do anything.

“Through the yearning and the great desire to understand what they are learning, they awaken upon themselves the lights that surround their souls. This means that every person from Israel is guaranteed to finally attain all the wonderful attainments… .”

That is, to reach the end of correction and adhere to Him, “with which the Creator contemplated in the thought of creation to delight every creature.” Every one of us is already in the state of the final correction, but we must uncover this state for ourselves, as it is written, “And you will eat the old supply and clear out the old because of the new” (Leviticus 26:10).

“And one who has not been awarded in this life will be granted in the next life, etc.” Such is the process “until one is awarded completing His thought, which He had planned for him.” We reincarnate into this world until we reach the experience of Ein Sof, which is where we already exist, but cannot yet feel.

In our current state, we are unconscious. Gradually, we cleanse our vessels of perception and we feel more and more until we reach the end of correction. What do we correct? We correct our vessels and expand our capacity to feel the state called “the end of correction.”

If we study correctly according to the conditions set by Kabbalists, we receive a force from above that guides us to the goal of creation. This force leads us in various ways, intentionally bringing failures and disappointments so that we feel the need for the Creator’s help. Progress happens solely through the light, so there is no other path but through the study of Kabbalistic books.

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