In Baal HaSulam’s article “The Concealment and Revelation of the Creator,” he describes the extent a person’s attitude toward reality alters the entire picture, from hell to heaven. He explains that in truth nothing actually changes. You are in Malchut of the world of infinity, in the final state. You are merely being guided through various impressions so that you may change your attitude toward them.

Nothing changes! You must change your attitude within the very reality in you currently exist. You cannot accomplish this in one go; therefore, you are led through various states, one after another, so that each time you will be able to deliberately change your attitude toward them, until you reach the final state in which you understand with absolute clarity that you have always been in it, you simply failed to perceive it due to your attitude, you did not realize where you were.

In principle, what we feel and call our world is not where we are, but rather where our attitude is. Our attitude reveals a specific segment of reality to us, presenting a picture of it solely in accordance with our attitude toward it. It is this perception that we designate as “worlds.”

There are no distinct worlds, no separate degrees, and no discrete states; rather, my ever-changing attitude toward the environment in which I am immersed is what alters this picture for me. It is this shifting picture that I refer to as degrees or worlds.

Therefore, if we try to relate to reality in a more correct way, we will return to the true reality and discover it as it really is. What follows from this? If we do not work on improving our attitude to the state we are in, the state remains inert, it is dead. This implies that I am failing to consciously define my attitude to my world and my state. However, the moment I begin to define my attitude, seeking to evaluate it differently, from a new perspective, I embark on the process of inner development.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/15/26, Rabash, “What It Means that the Generations of the Righteous are Good Deeds, in the Work”

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