Everything depends on desire; everything is revealed within it. Therefore we just need a properly organized, structured, and directed desire.

To shape our desire, to give it the right form that is ready to be filled by the Creator, the Creator plays a game with us. He alternately hides and conceals Himself. A person does not always recognize this game, but it goes on all the time and with everyone until the complete correction of everyone.

It is essential to constantly recognize that the entire world is nothing more than a manifestation of the Creator in various images: both those who oppose and those who love, those who hinder and those who help, those who are close and those who are distant, friends and complete strangers.

All these people, as well as inanimate nature, plants, animals, human thoughts, and desires, everything, except for the point of one’s own “I,” the point of observation from which a person strives to grow similar to the Creator, everything else in him comes from the Creator who plays this game, sometimes drawing a person closer, sometimes pushing them away.

But both the drawing close and the distancing are done with only one purpose: to stir a person, as it is said: “The upper light shakes and awakens desires.”

If, despite being thrown about, a person exerts all their strength to hold onto the thought that everything comes from the Creator because “There is none else besides Him” and the Creator is undoubtedly “Good and Does Good,” then their desires expand.

If they truly “hold on with their teeth” and don’t allow themself to disconnect from the thought and feeling that it is the Creator performing all the actions with them, then they begin to see how to use every moment of life correctly. After all, every opponent is, in reality, not an opponent at all, but a helper, someone who strengthens their grip on the Creator, especially in extreme states.

In this way, a person advances until they reach a state where they are ready for anything and can withstand everything, as long as they do not part from the Creator. And this is their only request.

It no longer matters to them what happens in their life; they ask for only one thing: “That I may dwell in the house of the Creator all the days of my life.” They even rejoice in all obstacles, for these expand their desires.

They see these obstacles as the most important exercises that are lovingly sent to them by the Creator, who is simply waiting for their readiness to be revealed to them.

Thus, a person progresses until they complete the entire process known as “concealment” or “the period of preparation,” and move from “Lo Lishma” to “Lishma.”
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From preparation to Daily Kabbalah lesson 3/22/10, “Shamati 10”

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