It is written, “The Lord is high and the low will see,” that only the low can see the exaltedness (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 26, “One’s Future Depends and Is Tied to Gratitude for the Past”).

Why specifically the lowly? After all, we usually say the opposite, that attainment of the Creator comes according to the equivalence of form between a person’s qualities and the Creator’s qualities. If I feel the Creator, see Him, it means I have become similar to Him. Does it mean that if I become lowly, then the Creator is also lowly?

So what does the phrase mean: “The Lord is high and the low will see”?

Baal HaSulam explains that The letters “Yakar” [precious] are the letters of “Yakir” [will know]. This means that one knows the exaltedness of a thing to the extent that it is precious to one.

One is impressed according to the importance of the thing. The impression brings one to a sensation in the heart, and according to the measure of one’s recognition of the importance, to that extent, joy is born in him.

Thus, joy is a result of the importance of something—an object, a state, or an event.

Thus, if one knows his lowliness, that he is not more privileged than his contemporaries, meaning he sees that there are many people in the world… who have not attained understanding of where they are, what they live for, who created them, for what purpose, and how. Meaning, they exist on a lower level than he does.

Even from an egoistic perspective, without any intention to have a special connection with the Creator, these people are not in connection with Him, not only a direct connection, but not even an inverse one. The Creator has not yet made a single move toward them.

While he was imparted the desire and thought to at least occasionally to remember Him, to aspire toward Him, to be with Him in one system, to feel that he is approaching or even moving away, but is still in some kind of coordination, some kind of connection with Him, even the simplest.

And if a person can appreciate such an attitude of the Creator toward him, regardless of whether it seems good or bad, if he assigns importance to this connection, then he must thank and praise the Creator, and one is elated by every single point in the holy work, he knows Whose servant he is, and thus soars ever higher.

Even if it is just to be in some kind of mutual reciprocal contact, some movement toward one another even without any special intention to become like Him

Still, if I simply remember that I have a connection with Him, one that exists right now, then I already come to some feeling of joy in the heart.

Even if I would like more, the very fact that there is a contact, and that the Creator reaches out to connect with me should fill me with joy.

As soon as we begin to realize that we are in contact with Him, the next opportunity arises: I can now expand this connection by constantly praising Him according to how great this connection appears to me.

In truth, we are unable to measure a person’s connection with the Creator, and to the extent it seems great to us, so it indeed will be. I become permeated with this sensation of connection and rise to ever-higher levels of gratitude, awareness, and importance.

I begin to feel all the details of the spiritual work, all the mutual connections between us, I attain with Whom I have a connection, and in this way, I reveal more and more nuances and summits of our bond.

It is precisely through this effort that a person—even from the most initial, lowly, and minor connection—reaches the greatest possible state of adhesion with the Creator.

Baal HaSulam briefly mentions this in the article “The Future of a Person Depends on His Gratitude for the Past.” That is, a person’s future depends on the extent to which he cherishes his connection with the Creator even in the smallest doses of interaction.

This is the meaning of what is written, “I thank You for the grace that You have made with me,” meaning for the past, and by this one can confidently say, and he does say, “and that You are destined to do with me.”

Therefore, it is necessary to restore full connection with the Creator and to express gratitude for the past, present, and future, relying on the fact that we have reached such a lofty evaluation of this connection.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/28/2019, “What does the future depend on?”

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