A person can exist within the desires of a “slave,” a “woman,” and a “child,” whether they understand them or not. After all, an infant is so little; it does not understand its own state. A person might say: “I am little.” Why? Because one sees the “big” one. But what does it mean to be “little”? One must become “big” in order to examine what it means to be “little.”
A person cannot comprehend the level they are on, one cannot surpass it, because the cause of their level and all the forces acting upon it exist on a higher level, perhaps not even the closest higher one, but a level that contains Rosh, Toch, and Sof acting in relation to their current state.
A child may be two, three, or four years old; these are all levels, but not levels from which he can know what a small child truly is.
Therefore, in any case, when we are talking about people immersed in self-love who are in fact under the control of the desire to receive, then because they are under its influence, they are not free from it.
And in order to advance them, to pull them from level to level, from state to state, until they exit the desire to receive and acquire the property of Bina, to be able to critically analyze this desire and determine their relationship to it at least to some degree independently, we must relate to them in a way that their own desire wants advancement. Otherwise, by what means would they move forward?
Thus, one must supply their desire to receive with appropriate fulfillments each time.
This is exactly what the sages, the Kabbalists who understand human nature, advise.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/13/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”
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