Disconnection from thoughts, knowledge, and the feeling that everything comes from the Creator is carried out for our benefit.

This is the darkness when I disconnect from the Creator, not the darkness of our world where it seems to me that bad is darkness and good is light. I am not even talking about physical light and darkness.

When transitioning to spiritual perceptions and striving to approach a correct understanding that the Creator determines all good and bad feelings within me, I must learn to perceive darkness and light not as feelings within my egoistic desires or understanding in my egoistic mind, but as degrees of connection with the Creator, independent of whether it feels pleasant or unpleasant, clear or unclear.

This is where a person’s disconnection from the Creator occurs, which can be described as a “descent.” These descents, however, are for our benefit. They allow us to examine whether we are truly following the spiritual path.

If I am on the spiritual path, I will begin to perceive descents where I am entirely thrown out of feeling spirituality and will recognize that I am disconnected from the understanding that the Creator forms my entire perception of the world and of myself. When I realize this, it is considered “day,” when I do not, it is “night,” or darkness.

Therefore it is said that a descent a person experiences is for his benefit. We must move away from egoistic perceptions where good is seen as an ascent and bad as a descent. Instead we should begin to evaluate descents and ascents based on their alignment with the purpose of our development: what brings us closer to the goal is an ascent and what distances us from the goal is a descent.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “The Work in Concealment”

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In essence, mutual inclusion (hitkalelut in Hebrew – interpenetration) is the most important action, and there is nothing that can compare with it in importance. This stems from the plan of creation.

The Creator, the upper light, creates a desire to receive pleasure, which is aimed only at filling itself with everything that carries the light. It is literally enslaved by light and feels it as pleasure, as life.

In this form, this desire cannot even be called a creation because it lacks any independence; it is entirely dependent on light. Therefore, as a creation it does not yet exist, like a shadow that cannot exist independently from a person or any object that casts it.

But the Creator wants this creation to become independent like Himself. For this the creation needs to undergo a very long path that is much longer than the one that a drop of semen undergoes in transforming into a living organism.

After all, the creation was created as a shadow of light, as its imprint, as its opposite. But gradually, under the influence of light, it begins to develop.

And all its further development through the process of the expansion of the four phases of direct light, the emergence of the worlds AK (Adam Kadmon), Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya, of this world, the descent of souls into our world and their ascent back occurs due to the interconnection of desire and light.

At the same time, the creation absorbs all the qualities of the Creator and becomes like Him. And moreover, since at the same time it acquires a more complex internal structure, it gains the ability to comprehend all the details of creation in all its depth.

In this way creation reveals what the Creator has done in it. By understanding itself as a derivative of the upper light, creation comes to know the Creator. It is called, “From Your actions I know You.”

And all of this is made possible by what is called mutual inclusion.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah for Beginners” 10/27/10

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I must attune myself to the sensation of the Creator so that my feelings perceive the entire world, everything He creates within me from the crude image of this world, which we imagine through our five senses, to inner spiritual states, to the Creator’s attitude toward this, and to my attitude toward Him through the veil of this world.

I must imagine all this as the Creator’s immense attention and care for me that is aimed at my development to a state where I begin to feel Him. He does not hide; it is my consciousness that conceals Him from me.

If I thought that in my previous state I had a glimpse of perfection or some understanding and awareness, the next state, in contrast, reveals that I understand nothing, feel lost, and do not know how to deal with this tangled perception of the world.

Here I must realize what I am striving for. Naturally, according to my egoism, I want everything to be clear to my mind and revealed to my feelings so that I can fill myself with sensations and perceptions of some image and, through it, see the Creator of this image, the Creator of the world.

The world is the image I perceive. The Creator is the one who stands behind it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “The Work in Concealment”

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The most correct way to turn to the Creator is when He is close to you. Close is when you feel you can be in contact with Him. But if you are in contact with Him, what is left to ask? After all, you have nothing more to ask than to merge with Him. Here, we have an internal contradiction, and as always we advance on two lines: the right and the left.

On one hand, I feel the Creator is close to me; otherwise, how could I turn to Him? He should be directed at me in some way, and I should be directed at Him. On the other hand, I have to feel like I am distant from Him.

Overall, there is no problem here. We always perceive the Creator in two ways: One, He is close to us, and we must accept and feel Him as our ruler, and two, we should feel Him far from us because we are not yet similar to His properties.

It is like a child and a mother. A child may feel very close to its mother. On the other hand, if he were smart, he would understand the difference between them is vast because his mother has everything in her hands, and he has nothing. Through understanding his mother (her capabilities versus his own), he can firmly demand everything from her; these are the states, only more corrected, of course, not on the animal level, but on the human level, that we must build with the Creator.

This is the only force in the world that will do everything we ask if our requests are aimed at our development, at becoming more like it, because the Creator intends to make man a man, Adam, similar to Himself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “Turning to the Creator”

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The descent a person receives is intended for his own benefit. He is taken care of from above in a special way that lowers him from the previous state in which, it would seem, he has a little perfection, as evidenced by his willingness to remain in this state all the days of his life.

If we begin to catch ourselves in what states we are in, then as a rule we agree for them to remain like they are. We are not trying to get out of them. We realize that they come from the Creator precisely so we can feel what state can be spiritually higher, but not according to our sensation of when it is pleasant and more understandable in the heart and mind—no.

So what state should I strive for? Toward greater definition that everything in me is from the Creator.

I do not want to change the state, but rather to single out the Creator as its source. This is the most important thing to me. Let them give me any states: good or bad, confusing or clear; I will not even criticize or define them; it does not matter to me.

I immediately rush inward to their source, the Creator. It is important to me how I want to imagine Him as the source of what is currently being depicted in my feelings and my mind, that is, not the state itself, but the definition, with maximum clarity, that it comes from the Creator.

Moreover, I do not necessarily determine only this. I need to determine the most important thing in this: His quality. After all, if we are talking about the Creator, that “He is good that does good,” then I must feel this in my states.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “The Work in Concealment”

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 38

What Is Supervision with Reason?

There is “mind” (Mocha) and “heart” (Liba). Mind involves constant, purposeful supervision aimed at a specific goal, and assessing our states and experiences. It is like a critical mechanism that lets us observe ourselves from the outside. For instance, we might be immobilized, unable to act or think, yet still be aware of our state. Alternatively, we might be confused, unable to think clearly, yet still observe and recognize our confusion. Such an ability to view ourselves from the outside helps us learn who and what we are. If we adopt the Creator’s qualities, we begin to see ourselves from the Creator’s perspective. Gradually, we start identifying with the traits we acquired from the Creator, and view our own uncorrected traits as “Pharaoh,” an external force within us.

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Why must the Creator hide from us? Why don’t we see the system of forces acting upon us? Why don’t we directly perceive the upper force in our world and our state and work with it openly as we do with the other forces of nature around us, those that influence us and that we in turn influence?

Why is it different with the Creator? After all, He affects us through all forces, and we somehow influence Him with our desires. Yet the source of everything that happens remains unknown, incomprehensible, and concealed from us.

This is done so that through all the forces that affect us and all the forces with which we can influence the Creator, we would come to reveal Him personally: His will, His perspective, His intention, and His attitude toward us.

For instance, if I interact with someone and do or say something that influences them, they begin to understand my attitude toward them, what I want from them, how I perceive them, and so forth. Similarly, I sense their influence on me and through this form an image of who they are.

Different people might act upon me in entirely similar ways but with varying combinations, and I would form completely different images of them. There are numerous nuances and possibilities here.

The same applies to the Creator, but on a far greater, broader, and richer scale. Through such interaction with the Creator, we begin to reveal Him.

Moreover, the Creator’s concealment is more complex and layered. With another person I can see them and engage in physical or virtual interaction. With the Creator, it is more complicated.

He is incomprehensible to me and for some reason remains hidden through everything that I perceive.

That is, my desires, intentions, thoughts, feelings, and everything that I perceive through them in the surrounding world are generated within me by the Creator. Essentially this means that “I” do not exist. There is only some “self” that senses what the Creator is doing to it and nothing more.

In other words, our connection, our relationship, is both vast (it encompasses everything I feel and this entire world) and hidden. I cannot see from where and why these things come to me. Thus the connection is multi-layered and consists of many layers of concealment.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “The Work in Concealment”

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Question: If I feel the Creator as care and help at almost every step, does this mean that my group is in the right connection and correct work?

Answer: If you constantly feel the group’s support in both bad and good states, it means not that the group is good, but that your connection with the group is strong.

The group might be excellent, but the quality of your connection with it depends on you.

Connection with the Creator can be personal, but then it is very small, one-sided, and still only in its initial stages.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “The Work in Concealment”

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