The root of all the commandments lies in the fact that the Kabbalists attained the upper worlds. This began with the forefather Abraham. In accordance with the roots that the Kabbalists attained in the spiritual worlds, they began to perform certain actions in the material world, similar to how this occurs in the spiritual worlds.

What is the difference between an action in the material world, that we call a commandment and an action that we do not call a commandment?

An action in our world that is not called a commandment has a spiritual root that descends into the material world, as it were, forming a material branch. But none of the actions called a commandment, which is a spiritual action, has a material continuation, a material branch. These are purely spiritual actions.

Do tefillin grow on a tree or exist in the nature of the material world? Absolutely any commandment, whether a blessing before a meal or after it, and so on, has no branch in this world, no embodiment of this phenomenon.

The Kabbalists simply took them from the spiritual world and decreed that they be performed. Therefore, all of this appears irrational in our world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/20/26, Rabash, “A Prayer of Many”

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