When he is “not rewarded,” it is the complete opposite—he has no desire for Torah or prayer.

Anything he does in Kedusha is forced on him, and when he introspects, he says about everything that pertains to Kedusha that it is to him as the potion of death, that he wants to quickly run away from all those things around him (Rabash, “What Is, ‘There Is Nothing that Has No Place,’ in the Work?”).

Question: What does it mean that “anything he does is forced on him”?

Answer: Rabash shows how much a person can be deluded and not see where he actually is. It seems to him that he is about to build a Kli, but if his work is without the application of effort, then he receives the potion of death. It seems to him that he is advancing, rising, and feeling the fruitfulness of the work.

However, if this elevation comes not because he has the possibility to connect with the Creator and rises above all problems and difficulties, but because, when he feels a lack in his ordinary Kelim, he lives only by the fact that he is connected with the Creator thanks to His greatness and not for any other reason—this is called holiness. But if he enjoys the connection with the Creator, and his will to receive and intellect agree with it, this is opposite to holiness.

This diagnosis must be completely clear to a person. The study and the group must help him in this.

First of all, we need the light that reforms, so that first we will see how much our desires are opposite to the desires of the Creator, how all of reality, except for our limited reality, is built on the basis of the desire to bestow. And we, compared to the spiritual reality, are only a tiny grain of sand in which the law of fulfillment according to the will to receive rules. Yet we see that even in this no one has succeeded.

For us this law is not fulfilled. It operates only as preparation so that we will come to the conclusion that this thing is impossible, and we begin to build something opposite to it that is above it. Above it means that we must invert it. A person must prepare many means and examinations for himself that would help him, and that remind him of his advancement. Otherwise there will be no advancement.

Everything with which we agree is rejected in spirituality. It is important to understand what this opposition is because it is not about going against one’s desire, but about the Creator ruling within it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/7/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘There Is Nothing that Has No Place,’ in the Work?”

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