Question: What does it mean “not to spoil one’s stay in the spiritual”?

Answer: It means that a person never abandons the intention for the sake of bestowal, constantly watches over their screen so as not to lose it, and takes care to strengthen it time after time. You cannot completely lose it and go back below the Machsom, but descents, of course, do occur.

And again, there is a law: “One is raised in holiness, never lowered.” Even in this world, in a very bad state, we still move forward, albeit by a path that is far from ideal.

Suppose I must get from here to Jerusalem. I could drive in a car with air conditioning and music and reach my destination in comfort, or I could end up in a minefield, under fire, and also reach the place. The question is how we handle the journey.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/1/26, Rabash, “Why the Festival of Matzot Is Called Passover”

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Question: Can a person who has reached double and single concealment to regress all the way to the level of the animal?

Answer: No. When it seems to a person that after several years that they are returning to a former and even worse state, they indeed descend below the previous state, but only in order to take additional Kelim from the Egyptians, to receive a new portion of their uncorrected desires.

It is impossible that you will find yourself in a lower state than today except for the brief interval required to immerse you in this filth. As a result you will see where you actually are, and this will force you to rise faster. This is what is happening to us today: sufferings are intensifying and intensifying until enough of them accumulate for us to begin to think.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/1/26, Rabash, “Why the Festival of Matzot Is Called Passover”

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Question: Can we say that there are also degrees in this world; it is that only we do not see them?

Answer: Of course there are degrees in this world too. This whole stage is called “the time of preparation,” and here, naturally, there are many states preceding the Machsom. First of all, the preparation period spans thousands of years, which we pass through in all our reincarnations.

We have passed through animalistic desires, the desire for money, honor, and knowledge, and the desire for spirituality. All this constitutes the duration of our reincarnations; all this is the time of preparation. Naturally, there are degrees here, periods of descents and ascents.

Each time a little more surrounding light is revealed from above and a greater will to receive is revealed from below. A person suddenly again begins to be drawn to money; unexpectedly, one’s own ambition awakens; a person begins to worry about their position in society and why they do not receive support from it.

Temptations are supplied to a person from above, they are enticed by the possibility of becoming rich, of attaining power, and so on. This happens so that they will study themself and become aware of their aspirations and weaknesses and their insignificance in confronting enticing pleasures, so that they will study what the will to enjoy created by the Creator is.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/1/26, Rabash, “Why the Festival of Matzot Is Called Passover”

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Question: What is the animal state and how does it differ from double concealment?

Answer: An “animal” is an ordinary person with five senses and a desire to enjoy that are divided into desires for animalistic pleasures, money, honor, and knowledge. In the animal state you seek to enjoy whatever you see in the material world.

Double concealment differs from the animal state in that you yourself determine for yourself that you are in double concealment, that you have no connection with spirituality, that you are in a state of darkness, and the Creator does not look upon you and elate to you in any way at all. Thus, in double concealment there is still some measure of revelation.

The light that shines from above does not shine on us more strongly or more weakly for no reason. It may shine in a way as to define the form of its presence or of its absence that manifests as a “hiding Creator” when I feel that He is hiding.

If the light simply comes, this is called its “face” (Panim). When it shows you that it is not there, this is called the “back side” (Achoraim). In this lies the difference between the path of Torah and the path of suffering. If it shows you that it is not there, this awakens in you the path of heavy sufferings; if it shines in a direct form, this is the path of Torah, the path of light. Everything depends on your reactions.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/1/26, Rabash, “Why the Festival of Matzot Is Called Passover”

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