Question: Let’s say a person reaches a point where he condemns the Creator because he is suffering. The Creator sent him this state, and he does not agree with it. What does it mean that he must now find a reason to justify the Creator?

Answer: No! If I have received something from above, first of all, I notice that I feel something. Then I suddenly remember that what is happening to me came from the Creator. Then I analyze if what I received from the Creator is good or bad? And then, once it has already happened, do I feel that it came specifically from Him?

Perhaps the phenomenon itself is felt as bad by me, but when I remember that I received it from the Creator, it changes for the better, because I begin to see a purpose in it, and there is some justification for it.

Now the question is: What do I think in this situation? I can think that I am receiving blows from the Creator, but then He will somehow compensate for it later. Is such an attitude toward the Creator justified? Is His governance considered good? Or should I reach a state where I truly feel this governance as good, since in His world there is no evil?

In other words, I have to come to a state where I do not perceive evil at all, because if I feel bad, consciously or unconsciously, I blame Him. The bad feeling itself implies that the one who causes it is bad.

Now I must make a calculation: Do I want to feel good for the sake of feeling good, or to avoid not labeling Him bad? And so on. There is something to analyze here. Here, a person goes through a Tzimtzum, a restriction.

What is restriction? It means that how I feel it does not matter to me. The main thing is that my attitude toward Him is good. And then a transformation takes place; no matter how much adversity I face, I feel good.

Otherwise, how can a person enter a state of perfection and eternity? How can one reach the state that Rabbi Akiva was in, when his skin was being flayed alive while he was reciting “Shema Yisrael” (“Hear, O Israel” ) at that time?

Was he under anesthesia? How could he recite the prayer, meaning, be at such a level of adhesion with the Creator, of eternal love and perfection, while enduring such pain? He attained such a degree where his skin, the final degree of Malchut, was being torn away, yet he united that act with “Shema Yisrael,” with the intention for the sake of bestowal. The skin being flayed from his face represents  GAR de Hochma, the highest levels of the light of wisdom. That was the correction he achieved!
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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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