Kabbalah World Center - "Breaking the Iron Wall"

giving good" and all of his hardships are only for the good..
54) After the Creator has seen that a person has completed all his labor and all that was in his power to act with his
freewill to strengthen himself in the belief that the Creator controls the creation constantly in a completely good way, than
the Creator helps him and he merits to open attention from the Creator,"Face revealment" This person sees that
everything is run with absolute good, from this he's aroused to great love for the Creator, and than he merits complete
repentance, that he can cling to the Creator with all his heart, and soul, all as a result from his realization of the open
guidance of God.
55) The revealed providence and complete repentance come to a person on two levels:
56) The first level of revealed providence is the complete understanding of reward and punishment.
Not only includes the understanding that all the reward for mitzvot is in the world to come, but also a realization of the
great pleasure one has in doing the mitzvot in this world. Not only does one realize the bitter punishment that comes from
every sin after his death, but also feels the bitter taste of a sin that's done here in this world.
Therefore, the one who merits to open providence certainly cannot sin anymore, similar to one who certainly wouldn't cut
off his limbs and cause himself great suffering. Likewise he will take any opportunity to perform a mitzvah, as would any
normal person partake in a great pleasure that is offered to him.
57) Complete repentance is when the Creator Himself testifies that the person will no longer sin. Because a person cannot
be certain that he won't sin until he merits to an understanding of reward and punishment, meaning the revealed hand of
the Creator. This revealment of the Creator 's ways is, "redemptions of the Creator" or "Testimonies". "Creator's
redemption" refers to the revealing of the Creator to man. And when a person reaches an understanding of reward and
punishment, he is guaranteed that he won't sin further.
58) This repentance is called "repentance from fear". For also the one who returns to his Creator with all his heart and
soul, the guarantee that he won't sin further comes from his feeling of the pain and suffering, that come from his sins.He is
sure he won't sin because he doesn't want to cause to himself great hardship. Therefore his repentance comes only from
fear of sin, and so it is called "repentance from fear".
59) The one who does repentance from fear merits that all his intentional sins become unintentional, since the intentional
sins resulted from the double concealment when the Creator had become completely hidden from the sinner.
However the state of one concealment, when he believed in reward and punishment, but nevertheless from the great
hardships he had at times sinful thoughts, can be compared to one who sees his friend from behind, and is likely to think
that maybe it's not his friend. These sins are also considered unintentional since he didn't believe in reward and
punishment.
60) Therefore after he has merited to repentance from fear to a clear understanding of the system of reward and
punishment, until he is certain that he won't sin, he becomes removed completely from the double concealment. Now he
sees that there is a system of reward and punishment, and it's clear to him that all the hardship and darkness that he
experienced was a punishment for all of his sins.
He sees that in the past he made a bitter mistake that he thought the Maker was not controlling the world and now he sees
that the Creator was always managing the world in the way of "being good and doing good".
Thusly he has uprooted his intentional sins, but not completely as they are considered now unintentional. Similar to the
sins that he did at one concealment which are considered only unintentional, because he fell as a result of confusion and
great hardship which remove a man from he semblance of mind.
61) But from the first concealment he underwent immediately proceeding his repentance, he doesn't repair with his new
repentance. Left over is all the concealment and the unintentional sins that he committed, without any change or fixing,
because than he also believed that all of his suffering came from his sins. So he only merits to fix from the time of his
repentance and onward but not from before.
62) Therefore he's still not called a complete righteous person . Though since he has merited to the revealed face of the
Creator and sees that He is "good and does good" from this time and on he can be referred to as a righteous person, being