Chasidut sobre Job 17:9

However, each and every person must come into trial – even if he receives God’s Godliness into his thoughts as we have explained above – nevertheless each person is tested with ten trials, as they said about Abraham, “Abraham was tested with ten trials and withstood them all” (Mishnah, Avot 5:3). And the trial is that they strip him of the Connection with which he was connected to Blessed God through Awareness. At the moment when he comes into the trial, only Free Will remains with him; for without this it would not be called a trial. For certainly through the Connection the tzaddik holds his path (Job 17:9), and in this way his Awareness is diminished – though not completely removed – and if he withstands the trial, it is because it was already fixed in his heart from before when he had expansive Awareness.

Now, it is known that the extent to which the tzaddik serves Blessed God, Bless Him, through life-force and mind-states that are given to him from Above – for each one is in proportion to his measure, that he is able to comprehend the reality of the Blessed God – [to that extent] God’s Divinity, as if it were possible, is contracted [in order to reside] with him. But afterward when he travels on this level for some time, the aspect of Divinity that was contracted with the tzaddik leaves him in order that he should strengthen himself to come to a greater level. For the whole time that he is on this level he is unable to come to an even greater level, since that aspect is clothed in him and on account of his habituation he can not see any other aspect that is above him – because the nature of habit draws him to act according to the habit. But when this aspect in which he [resided] leaves him, then certainly the tzaddik will hold his path (Job 17:9) to attach to his root. He begins to strengthen himself greatly because he fell from his level; and because of the great self-strengthening that he awakens, the assistance from Above also greatly increases in proportion to his awakening – as is known, that just as the awakening comes from Below, so Above is awakened and then he comes to an even greater level.