On the Spiritual ladder (pdf) - Kabbalah-arizal.nl

light only starts to shine, just like with the lily, 1 sfirah above and the rest below, then the
light shines from a distance, it can also be that all ten sfirot are in darkness and this state is
called night.
This state is also absolutely structural. If you know the laws of the universe, then why should
you complain? If you know that the state of darkness is structural and not bad, then you’ll be
able to step by step manage more. If we for example wake up in a dark room and
immediately go to a room where an enormous beam of light is, can we then see?
It’s exactly the same with the spiritual. Just look how we woke up this morning, one lump of
flesh, I also woke up this morning just like an animal. Then the first thing that we have to do
is to bring out the lowest part, the nefesj out of our body, then it becomes like a throne.
A seat where the higher light can enter, the light ruach and ruach becomes on its turn a
throne, seat. We say throne because everything from above sits on a lower as a King. I have
to as it were prepare a compartment of my soul for the higher light, consider it as a seat for
the king of higher light. That is what he learns us.)
ךירצ םדאהש ,תאזכ תואיצמ שי םא ,ללכב עדוי אל אוה ,םויה רוא ול ריאמ אלש ימ ןכ םאש המ
אוהש םימעפל שי ,דחא ףוגב ונייה ,דחא םדאב דיגנו .םוי ארקנה ,'ה רוא לש ןורסח שיגרהל
הזב ,םירוסי שיגרמו ,'הל ברקתהל קקותשמו ,'המ קחורמ אצמנ אוהש ונייה ,ךשוח תניחב שיגרמ
.'המ קחורמ
אוהש
Line 34 – (he gradually unfolds it for us. Look carefully what he says.) What one can’t say of
someone at who the light of the day doesn’t shine (he says that it’s different for someone at
who the light doesn’t shine) he absolutely doesn’t know that such a reality of shortage exists
when the light shines at him from the front (so he doesn’t know that such a reality exists)
that a man needs to feel shortage of the light of the Creator (he says, that others absolutely
don’t know and experience the shortage of light, that there is such a reality, that there
should be shortage of experiencing the light, do you understand, because it’s necessary that
he… a phase of course), that the light of the Creator is called day (later on we’ll see that it’s
chessed, by day it’s chessed.)
(Look and now he says us something very special, that is penetrated in all his books and that
we also get penetrated by learning it. He just spoke of one man, that he experiences
shortage of the light of the Creator, which is structural, he began to see the light from a
distance.
And he told us that another man absolutely doesn’t experience anything, he also doesn’t
know that such a reality of shortage of light of the Creator exists. He as it were spoke of
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