Question: What does the first restriction mean?

Answer: The first restriction is an action when the desire to receive created by the Creator decides that it will receive pleasure not for its own sake, but only for the sake of the Creator.

Meaning, all the pleasure received from the Creator the creation will receive not in order to enjoy, although it was created in this way, but in order to feel how it gives to the Creator.

In other words, the light cannot enter the egoistic Kli. In the spiritual world we cannot enjoy for our own sake. And the fact that in our world we do it for ourselves, it is only in order to prepare us for a real spiritual sensation.

Therefore, it is impossible to use the connection with the Creator for your own sake. This is called the law of the first restriction.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 9/26/23

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