Every time we make efforts in observing the law of “faith above reason,” that is, in working against our desire, then no matter how tired we are, whatever unpleasant sensations we experience, and even if we see no worthy reason to justify our efforts, more and more burden is added on us. The load is made heavier so that we will ask the question: “Who is the Creator?”

According to the measure to which a person has reached this question, he can accordingly grow, inclining either to the side of Pharaoh or to the side of the Creator. If we are already given the possibility to ask “Who is the Creator?” more and more each time, and despite the unpleasant and hard‑to‑bear sensations, we still again and again ask it and, on its basis, advance, then we accordingly rise to a higher degree.

Therefore, the question “Who is the Creator?” never arises in secular or religious people. It cannot even be placed before them. Only to those who must advance in personal connection with the Creator does He send this question, so that a person will know exactly what he wants, which particular quality he must attain, and to what he must become similar in order to draw closer to this quality.

Therefore, all the obligations, all the burdens in observing the laws, in fulfilling the conditions established by our teachers, which are called “commandments,” are for us so far only indications: “This is how it happens, and that is all.”

Why “this is how”? Because you do not yet feel any taste in them. You are not yet allowed to see what is contained inside, since your will to receive would immediately take it for itself. And then all your work would be deprived of advancement, of elevation above Malchut and of aspiration toward the nine first Sefirot.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/17/26, Rabash, “What Is the Difference between Law and Judgment in the Work?”

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