Comment: When a person passes the Machsom, they feel shame before the giver of pleasure. But there is also the act of looking back at everything one experienced up to that moment.

My Response: Even before crossing the Machsom, a person stops thinking about and looking at their past. There is no past. One who constantly looks back becomes like Lot’s wife who turned into a pillar of salt, into something that does not spoil. Salt itself cannot be used as food, only as an additive.

Why, then, do we need to justify everything that happened? Is it so that a person sees that he went through all of this in order to gather Kelim and inner definitions for the present? No one sits like an old man reminiscing about his past at the end of correction (Gmar Tikkun).

If we continue, we will soon become convinced that the past in itself is absolutely unimportant and may be needed only for the present. You will not think about the past or regret something that you once did or did not do.

Such an attitude will disappear because it is incorrect. This is not you at all. You do not need to cross the Machsom for this, because the realization that one should not look back occurs long before it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/26, Rabash, “What Is ‘The Concealed Things Belong to the Lord, and the Revealed Things Belong to Us,’ in the Work?”

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