If There Is No Desire, There Is No Pleasure

232.08Restriction means that Malchut of Ein Sof diminished the will to receive in her. Then the light disappeared because there is no light without a vessel (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Restriction and Line,” “Inner Observation,” Chapter 2).

Question: What does the principle there is no light without a vessel mean, and how is it manifested in our world?

Answer: It is very simple. Let’s say that when a person is hungry, he can enjoy food. But to the extent that his appetite decreases, his pleasure from food also decreases.

How much a person will feel and, I would even say, how much a person will seek pleasure in the things he receives depends on the desire.

Question: Did Baal HaSulam, who commented on Ari’s essay, study the inner needs of a person? Is this the basis of our desires and of our life?

Answer: Naturally, both Ari and Baal HaSulam understood and absolutely, clearly differentiated how pleasure is manifested in accordance with the size of the desire.

This principle says that there are a great number of pleasures in our world, but we cannot grasp them if we do not have a desire for them. If there is no desire, there is no pleasure.

Question: Where can a person get desires if he has none?

Answer: This is a problem. We see how unhappy people are who have lost their desire for some reason. They are depressed and ready to do anything to have a desire again.

Question: Is it possible to increase the desire for something, say, twofold?

Answer: Basically, doctors and scientists are trying to do this.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 11/20/22

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