There is an adage that appears, in various forms, in many languages:
“If you can’t get through from above, try from below.”
But what should be done in the opposite situation, if you can’t get through from below?
Following the same pattern, it would seem that if you can’t get through from below, you must get through from above.
If the usual route is blocked, you must find another route; you must leap much higher than you had originally intended.
In such a situation, one must ascend in holiness, in a way that is not at all commensurate with one’s present level.
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz:”