What is the difference between wanting to receive something good right now in the state I am in and believing it would be better for me if I were to rise to a higher state, to a higher degree? How does the awareness of this difference arise in me at all?

The most essential difference is whether I understand that only by drawing closer to the Creator will I feel good. It is precisely this that we must acquire now.

A person needs to picture a spiritual ladder that raises him from this world to the final correction and to understand that all the rungs are in a constant, stable state. Each rung has its own conditions.

The conditions in which a person is now are bad only because such is the nature of this rung. And accordingly, nothing good can be for him now. Rising to the next rung means being saved from the bad that exists on the previous one.

Then he will already be thinking about how to rise from rung to rung, how to draw the surrounding light, and for this he needs to study and believe that it will help him, and at the same time, seek the support of the group.

Therefore we must diligently study the method of Kabbalah. Without it we might be tempted to define the spiritual ladder merely as a series of inner states within a person rather some structure that rests on this earth and reaches heaven. We must conclude that it consists entirely of my own inner states.

But if I think like this, I can lose all the necessary vital prerequisites: the necessity of drawing the surrounding light, the indispensable need for a group, and the imperative to strive upward in order to draw closer to the Creator. I would no longer have a sharp, clear understanding; instead everything would become vague and indistinct.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/7/26, Rabash, “The Connection between Passover, Matza, and Maror”

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