It seems like we must pray for fulfillment: “Fill me, fill me!” But the spiritual world is the opposite, the anti-world, because in it the fulfillment is the work itself, the effort, the striving for a goal, the desire to love!

This very desire fills a person. He gets filled with the desire for bestowal, not even from the action itself.

A person is filled with the Creator, and the Creator is the force of bestowal. If we attain the force of bestowal and are filled with the desire to give without even performing the action itself, this is called the stage of Bina. When we realize the act of bestowal, we have reached the stage of Keter, the degree of love. This is the filling.

In our world, it works differently. I perform some action and expect to be paid, so the payment is my fulfillment. But this is not the case in the spiritual world. There, the action itself serves as fulfillment. As it says, “The reward for a mitzvah is the mitzvah itself.”

But there is another addition: “The reward for a commandment is to attain the One who commanded.” That is, we reveal someone inside who is in adhesion with you.…

There is no such thing as requiring payment for the act of giving; otherwise, it is not giving! Therefore, our fulfillment lies in our efforts, in our work, in the very pursuit of spirituality. Like a mother who loves a baby and does not demand his love in return, she is filled with her love for him and her giving alone.

Therefore, we pray only for the desire for bestowal, we need nothing else. If I have such a desire for the Creator, for love, for giving, there is nothing more to ask! This is enough to feel completely fulfilled.

I will be filled with my desires for bestowal, while egoistic desires for enjoyment will never be filled.
They can only be filled with a very weak spark, which is called a “thin candle” (Ner Dakik), a very limited life in this world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/6/11, Rabash, “What Does It Mean that Charity to the Poor Makes the Holy Name, in the Work?”

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