Question: Let’s say I ask the Creator to change my qualities so that it would be possible to bestow and ask for friends. Am I asking for my private soul?

Answer: No, this is a mistake. This is egoism! Asking for yourself to be a bestower, to care for others, and so on is a mistake.

Comment: But I am asking to give it to me for the sake of bestowal.

My Response: No one needs it in order to bestow. And the Creator too. Bestowal can only be in unification. You have to ask for a structure, for the correction of the common Kli. Only from it can you bestow and do something through this structure.

Therefore, it is said: “An individual cannot separate from society and ask for himself, even to bring contentment to the Creator.”

This is not simple. There is a lot to figure out. It is a big problem. It is not so relevant for us yet. God willing that everyone will ask for themselves to be a bestower, to love friends, and so on. This is also egoism, but of the spiritual degree. But still egoism:

• Give me the strength to love my friends.
• Why should you be given strength? For what purpose?
• I want to love them.
• And why do you need to love?
• I will unite with them.
• Why do you need this unification?
• In order to bring contentment to the Creator.
• So, ask for that!

Ask for that. The most important thing for us is to understand that there is nothing else in front of us except the Creator and our common spiritual Kli, the soul, which must be similar to Him.

All we have to ask for is for this similarity of the soul to the Creator. That is all. Meaning, there is no me there, no friends, no group, nothing at all. There is a soul for which I ask.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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