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Posted on August 2nd, 2025
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Our path is tied to the development of the desire for pleasure. Altogether we exist within this single, unified desire. The four phases of the expansion of the light, the worlds, the Partzufim, and the spiritual degrees are embedded within it. Everything is inside it.
In other words, this desire is a composite. Just as the human body is made up of various organs and parts, so too is this desire made up of many components.
Among the parts of the desire, some are more developed, some less. They also differ in their thickness, which we call Aviut. In addition, some parts are closer to reception by their nature and others are closer to bestowal. There are many such gradations. Thus, if we break this great desire into its constituent parts, each will reveal itself as unique in its details and ingredients.
Among these parts, there are those that are purer, less egoistic, and they awaken first toward the light because they are closer to it. These are our friends across the world. They possess a yearning for bestowal, for the light, for discovering the reason for their existence.
They seek freedom. And freedom from life in this world first reveals itself in the question: “What am I living for? What does this life give me? What is its benefit?”
This question arises from problems and suffering. But afterward, in trying to understand their cause, one begins to search for the essence of life itself. The suffering becomes secondary; after all, what can be done about it? The main thing now is to uncover the secret of existence.
This means that I have awakened and want to break free from the everyday routine and from the vain pursuit of egoistic fulfillment. I can no longer continue serving my desire to enjoy like a slave. To me, this is death. Day after day, I have to drag around my “donkey,” feed and water it until it dies. When it dies, I, its loyal servant, will die with it.
But those who begin to understand that this is not life, but death, those are the ones who move forward. If the donkey wants to eat, feed it. But let it carry you, not the other way around. During this life, as long as you feed your donkey, you have the opportunity to ride it to a higher purpose. If you are not dragging it on your shoulders, but riding on it, then you are a human being.
This is the first stage of liberation from the angel of death, from the endless concern with mere corporeal existence. If you care for it in order to find a solution, that is a different matter; that is already life. Because essentially, you are charting a course toward the source of life.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/8/11, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Freedom”
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Hence, if we want to work only for the sake of the Creator and not for our own sake, it is hard work, since we must fight against the Kli that the Creator created.
From this work come all the lacks we learn about, such as the departure of the lights, the breaking of the vessels, Kedusha, Tuma’a, Sitra Achra [other side], and Klipot (Rabash, Article 26, “What Is “He Who Defiles Himself Is Defiled from Above” in the Work?”).
Question: It is said that work not for one’s own benefit is hard work because we must fight against the Kli created by the Creator.
What kind of work should we do so that the shattering happens not externally, especially now, during the period of “between the straits,” but rather between us in our inner work?
Answer: We simply need to persist in this and not be afraid to ask again and again from within our Kelim for connection, for adhesion, and so on. That is what we are already doing, only we need to be more active.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/22/2025, “The Ruin as an Opportunity for Correction”
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Question: There is a saying: “One who prays for one’s friend is answered first.”
If a person who prays for a friend sees that the friend receives but he himself does not, does that indicate some kind of flaw, or is it normal?
Answer: If a person sees that the friend is investing a lot of energy, participating in all the actions the group is doing, then he understands that this is the friend’s work. And the opposite is also true.
We must feel where we truly need to be.
Each of us and all of us together must be at the center of the desire for the Creator, when all our desires gather together, unite, and are directed toward Him. That is the most important thing.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/22/2025, “The Ruin as an Opportunity for Correction”
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Question: The Creator plays with a person. What are the rules of the game?
Answer: The rules of the game are that the Creator has only one intention—to bring a person closer to Him.
He cultivates egoistic desires within a person and the person begins to feel a burdening of the heart, confusion, and heaviness. It suddenly seems to him that the whole world is against him, that he has many enemies, many obstacles in his way, and that he himself is tired, confused, perhaps even somewhat ill.
In short, he feels a multitude of disturbances, both external and internal.
In reality, these are not disturbances at all; rather, they are additional layers of the desire to receive within which he has a new opportunity to connect with the Creator.
Usually this arrives with some unexpected disturbance, a sudden fear of people or of authorities.
The Creator dresses Himself in all these means of our world, in all these forms. The person begins to perceive them like a small child who fears everything in the world.
At that point, he must strengthen himself through the books, the environment, and the study and constantly try to hold onto the thought that “There is none else besides Him, the good who does good.”
It is not simple because this game on the Creator’s part is exceedingly clever and intricate for us.
He knows how to entangle a person on his particular level every time in such a way that it demands great effort not to veer off the path and to keep thinking that there is no other authority besides the Creator.
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From the preparation for the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/22/10, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is ‘Hurry, My Beloved,’ in the Work?”
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