Comment: On the one hand, we say that all our discernments (Avchanot) come from previous states, while on the other hand, it is said that the next state is completely opposite to the previous one. The previous experience cannot help in it, and all advancement takes place in darkness.

My Response: Indeed, a person has no experience from their previous state. This is what is called going “above reason.” The upper appears dark and concealed to a person. You must have faith, that is, perceive not in sensation, but in the Kelim of bestowal. This is called faith.

In the Kelim of bestowal (they are above you), you may assume that the upper is indeed higher and greater. This is despite the fact that in the Kelim of reception, which you are presently in, you do not feel the greatness of the upper. Even if these Kelim are already working in order to bestow, they are still small compared to the upper.

Suppose you already have a screen, and you receive with the intention to bestow, that is, you are in a certain spiritual state, on a certain degree X. You already have something, but nevertheless there exists X + 1, and for you this is darkness! X+1 is an addition to the desire to bestow that you do not yet have. Relative to your Kli this action is dark, and you do not perceive it as more exalted.

You can feel and evaluate this action as greater only on the condition that you have a Kli of bestowal for this action. But if you have not yet acquired it, then this additional bestowal appears to you as darkness. And there is nothing that can be done about it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/5/26, Rabash, “What Does, ‘Everything that Comes to Be a Burnt Offering Is Male,’ Mean in the Work?”

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