Our entire spiritual path consists of merging with the Creator—“There is none else besides Him.” Upon attaining the first point of adhesion with the Creator, a person must cling to it. Naturally, as soon as he reaches it, new shattered Reshimot (informational records) immediately arrive although one does not yet understand or feel it.

One must be very sensitive to them and recognize them as early as possible, so that a person does not find themself somewhere far away several days later.

Your work must be continuous. You must constantly sense that Reshimot awakening, and these Reshimot appear as alien thoughts and desires that seek to tear you away from the point of adhesion you have attained.

A person begins to struggle with them, tries to cope on their own, with the group, through mutual guarantee, and ultimately in prayer to the Creator. And if so, then all these alien thoughts and desires that awaken after the point of adhesion push one to connect with the Creator, to be in contact with Him.

Then a person no longer considers them alien thoughts and desires, but considers them useful, sent by the Creator so that they may expand the point of adhesion, give it volume, and transform it into an embryo.

Thus, time after time, a person nullifies oneself based on of all kinds of alien thoughts and desires that arise within oneself. “Alien” means that they disconnect you from adhesion, and they do not necessarily have to be “dirty.” If, on their basis and in spite of them, you strengthen the adhesion and attach them to holiness, then they become “holy,” bestowing. In this way, you advance.

A person’s advancement does not depend on entering a state of enlightenment, but on the constant occurrence of alien desires and thoughts that one recognizes as interfering with adhesion, with connecting to the Creator, to “There is none else besides Him,” and the person wishes to overcome them through the power of prayer.

After all, one wants to merge with the Creator, so the means for this must also be the Creator Himself. A person turns to Him, asks for the power of adhesion beyond all obstacles, and thus expands the domain of holiness.

A person must establish in one’s heart and mind that the greatness of spirituality is attained on the basis of ever-increasing self-nullification. The more one is able to nullify oneself, the more one advances and grows, on the basis of all the alien thoughts and desires. They are constantly increasing, like a mountain of doubts, and one rises above them each time, and thus grows by not detaching from adhesion.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/8/17, “Holding onto the State of ‘Entering Ibur (Conception)’ Above All Disturbances”

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