We must not harbor illusions regarding our relationship with the Creator, specifically the illusion that He sends a person something in response to a particular action a person makes.

It is not a matter of my doing something for Him and His responding to me through an action. It is a matter of my intention toward Him: what I think about Him and what my intention is directed toward. Our fundamental problem is that we descend from intention to action. This gives rise to all the confusion, a person thinks that if they act toward the Creator in a certain way, then the Creator is obliged to respond in a specific manner.

We are not discussing the actions themselves; we do not truly understand what we are doing. Lately I often hear people making various calculations, as though the Creator treats us in a certain way because we did this or that. It seems that everyone has become prophets.

This cannot be calculated, because we are not familiar with the part of creation where all the actions originate, actions that later descend to us. Yet suddenly we reason as though we know the entire system of the world of Atzilut, where our MAN is connected with what we will receive in response as MAD.

People begin constructing a completely fantastic, unrestrained system of imagined relationships. They think they can already determine precisely why the Creator does one thing or another. But we don’t have the slightest understanding of this, because the souls are connected to one another in a way that cannot be calculated.

Everyone is in his own special process, not necessarily connected specifically with his current state. The structure of every soul is such that it is impossible to know which events are necessary to reveal and correct each stage of that soul’s development.

In other words, we cannot judge actions at all. This is hidden from us and has its root in the Rosh of the world of Atzilut. Therefore, until we attain such a level and have clear attainment, we will not know this.

All that remains for us is to clarify the intention. This is what we must engage in constantly, so that our intentions truly appear new in our eyes each time.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/8/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘Every Day They Will Be as New in Your Eyes,’ in the Work?”

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