Question: It is said that a person exits their spiritual state, falls, and then is in an unconscious state. What does that mean?
Answer: First of all, even now we are in an unconscious state, devoid of awareness of the spiritual. Suppose a person is already on a spiritual degree. What does it mean that he “descends from that degree”? The lights, the Mochin, depart from them, and if the lights leave, it means they are without consciousness: the Light exits, and the understanding and feeling of where you are disappear.
Question: Why does a person realize this only after several hours or days, rather than being able to grasp it the moment the light departs?
Answer: In our current state, this happens because you are still under the rule of the Klipot. The lights withdraw because an additional measure of the desire to receive is added to you. In this, it is as if there is no fault of yours; you do not exit your state by yourself.
We never enter into a spiritual state or exit it on our own; rather, we are given additional desire to receive. You did something, achieved something, received some reward through effort, and now a state of awareness in your connection with the Creator comes.
In spirituality, as soon as you attain something, you must continue. In the corporeal world, you can remain in a good state, but here it is not so. Therefore, the Reshimot of the next degree immediately awakens in you with greater Aviut. This Aviut seemingly “spoils” your connection with the Creator, and then you begin to receive pleasure for your own sake within this Aviut.
You begin to enjoy: “How wonderful this world is!” and you already forget about the connection with the Creator, about the fact that precisely because you were striving toward Him, you received this pleasure. And so, you fall.
But what is a descent? It is the loss of connection with the upper one.
You remain within your desire to receive, enjoying it, and that’s it. This is defined as a fall. When does it happen? When there is a lack of attainment, of awareness. And so, it happens each time that the added desire is greater than what has been corrected. It disconnects you from the Creator, and you remain only with the pleasure.
So what can you do? Nothing can be done; now you must correct this desire. Did you have the ability not to fall? No. Could you have held yourself at the moment before the fall and remained in the higher state of connection with the Creator with the new Aviut? No. You are obliged to realize it in the descent, that is, to pass through its full depth and then connect it to the desire for connection with the Creator. There is no other way.
Therefore, it is said: “There is no righteous person who performs a commandment without first stumbling.”
Thus, first come failures, darkness, intentional and unintentional transgressions, and only afterward comes their correction.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/23/26, Rabash, “The Measure of Practicing Mitzvot [Commandments]”
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