Question: If the Creator is the quality of bestowal, then how can one bring contentment to the quality? Does He need anything from me?

Answer: What the Creator wants me to enjoy. The host desires only one thing—for the guest will delight. But He places a condition: I can only receive pleasure if I become like Him.

After all, we do not want a child to enjoy at a tiny, undeveloped level. We want him to constantly grow, to become more mature and wiser. We surround him with toys that help him develop, not just for him to have fun. We seek additional benefit in children’s activities. The Creator treats us in the same way. He does not want us to remain like small animals.

If I continue receiving for my own sake, I will only feel a short-lived existence, and even within this life, I will never be truly fulfilled. But if I receive pleasure by fulfilling the Creator, even the smallest pleasure I bring Him in His desires that are now connected to mine never disappears and I feel it constantly.

Why do all the pleasures we feel in our life vanish? I want them to stay! Why must they disappear? It is as if we have agreed to this. But why?

Spiritual pleasure is called eternal. Because if you once feel the delight there, it remains and fills you all the time. This is because the pleasure does not cancel the desire. The pleasure exists in one place, and the desire in another.

And then you have no problem, you just keep adding and adding. That is why there is ascent through spiritual degrees.

In this world, everything happens on the same plane, you move from loss to loss until life ends, and that is it.

Let’s hope that we understand this unique opportunity embedded in the wisdom of Kabbalah, the science of how to receive infinite, eternal pleasure, and that we realize it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/17/10, The Book of The Zohar

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