This is called “the sorrow of the Shechina.” That is, it is that the Creator cannot impart the delight and pleasure as He wishes, for His desire is to do good to His creations (Rabash, “What Is, ‘When Israel Are in Exile, the Shechina Is with Them,’ in the Work?”).

Question: Why do we say “the sorrow of the Shechina” and not “the sorrow of the Creator”?

Answer: Because the revelation of the Creator with respect to the created being appears as a mirror image of the corrected Malchut. This serves as an example for Malchut of what it should be like. But of course, it is the sorrow of the Creator from the inability to bestow to the lower ones.

Rabash writes that the light is called Shochen, and the vesse the light is clothed is called Shechina. Thus, the Shechina is the perception of the Creator’s sorrow within the lower one, because the lower one feels it in its own vessels.

The Creator wishes to bestow to him. This relates not exactly to the Creator Himself, but to the Creator’s attitude toward us.

Question: But why isn’t it about the Creator’s relation to Himself?

Answer: Because this revelation takes place in Malchut, which is in a state where it can feel the sorrow of another and work with this in bestowal.

In essence, the sorrow of the Shechina is the sorrow of Malchut. It does not mean that the Creator regrets or feels sorrow; rather, Malchut reveals how great its own sorrow is, how deeply it regrets that the Creator cannot bestow to it.

Everything here is focused specifically on the vessel of the lower one, because the vessel of the lower one is ready to feel this sorrow, it has already undergone the correction of Hafetz Hesed. Otherwise, it would not be able to feel another’s sorrow.

Hafetz Hesed means that I desire nothing for myself, and therefore I am able to be filled with the desires of another.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/24/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘When Israel Are in Exile, the Shechina Is with Them,’ in the Work?”

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