In the process of spiritual work, a person reaches a degree where they wants to bury their desire. Not even the desire itself, but the intention. They must understand that it is impossible to come to the burial of a desire if we do not know precisely what we are burying.

What is “burial”? It is when something has died within me and I perform an additional correction upon it.

I do not want to use the intention for the sake of receiving, that is, my desire in the form in which it presently exists within me. For me, it is as if dead, and from my side it is not fit for use. Death is a Tzimtzum, a restriction, upon the desire that I do not wish to use. It is dead to me in terms of use.

But afterward, I gradually begin to discover that this desire could be used if it were the opposite. I begin to perceive its decay, its decomposition, how in its essence it is opposite to the Creator. Ultimately, I arrive at the conclusion that if the desire were truly opposite to its current state, I would be able to use it differently. In its decomposition, I see that the opposite state could be good, beacuse in the decay I discern properties of the “living,” properties of life that could exist there.

Thus, when the desire comes to complete decomposition, the conditions are formed within me to ask for resurrection. I am ready for its change to “for the sake of bestowal.” I ask for this, and then “the resurrection of the dead” occurs.

The desire remains the same, but I am ready for the intention to begin to rise “from the dead.”
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/10/26, Rabash, “What Are the Two Actions During a Descent?”

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