It means to understand that the Creator means good for a person and for everyone. And if we don’t feel this as good, this means that we don’t yet see through the Thought of Creation clearly enough. So, what we are supposed to aim at is changing our own perception of the situation.
I am still struggling a lot with this language of “roots and branches”. I understand that Kabbalists used corporeal words to describe the Upper Worlds, but does this mean that nothing described in Kabbalistic texts actually historically happened? Meaning for example that people like Abraham and Noah in fact never lived and all the events in their lives never happened?
My question stemmed from reading Shamati #54 – “The Purpose of the Work,” Pages 157-159. There it is written that Kedusha is the Kli, from which I concluded that it is somehow related to reception (probably to some specific way of reception). Could you please clarify then what Kedusha is, because this confuses me a lot.
When we manage to connect to the Creator and the Creator helps us to correct our ego, then almost immediately a new layer of ego appears, greater than before. Why is this so? What is the mechanism of this ego building up? Is there an end to it?