One who works in the darkness without feeling any taste should understand that this is very beneficial for advancement because you are advancing toward bestowal to such an extent that you do not want other states, because the efforts are the reward if you have love for the one who creates these conditions for you.

You are given the opportunity to make efforts, and you do not feel any taste in this work, you have nothing with which to enliven your ego, the evil inclination, your pride, understanding, reason, and sensation, but precisely under these conditions, you have the opportunity to gather all your strength and with monstrous efforts advance at least in something. In bestowal without a reward.

The reward is the opportunity to come into contact with holiness in the darkness. Then it is clear that you have not been bribed by your desire for pleasure. Therefore, it is necessary to rejoice precisely in these states in which there is no taste at all. A person grows in them.

And here the support of the group is essential, the shared inspiration of the entire global Kabbalistic community. Such mutual support helps.

It is exactly when you do not receive it either from the Creator or from within (which also comes from Him), and you strive to receive support from the group, this is the best and most reliable guide toward the goal.

Specifically here is the point of making the correct efforts and the opportunity for a common prayer.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/20/09, The Book of Zohar, “VaYishlach”

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