Question: What is the “inner voice,” the “guiding hand of the Creator“?

Answer: The source of correct thoughts in a person—let us call it “the representative of the Creator within the person”—is the point in the heart. It is called “a part of the Creator from above,” a spark that fell into the vessel as a result of the shattering of the soul.

Before the shattering of the global soul, the light, sparks, and vessels existed in a corrected state: the desire to receive with a screen and the light filling it. But when they shattered, they became mixed; the lights rose upward to the source, to where the soul resides, while the vessels and sparks fell downward.

Therefore, a person is tasked with revealing the spark that exists within him. When it begins to manifest in a person, they must proceed with that spark as if taking a small candle into a dark, empty, vast space of the desire to receive and begin to discover who and what they are, to examine themselves, but only with this candle, with this spark.

And then gradually, the person finds a way to hold on with the help of this candle amid all 620 shattered desires, which make up the dark space of the soul, until they are able to connect them to the candle like oil to a lamp, so that from the candle, a flame may spread through the entire soul.

This is called “the darkness shall shine like light.”

Baal HaSulam gives the example of a wick and oil that produce light. When the Aviut (coarseness of desire) joins this spark, a true fire ignites because it turns into an intention for the sake of bestowal, giving it the same nature as the light, transforming Aviut (thickness) into Zakut (purity).
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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