Question: What does it mean that I overcome desires?

Answer: Our desires are arranged so that in the beginning their intention is reception for oneself, which gives me only the feeling of pleasure and not the feeling of the giver of the pleasure. In order to attain the feeling of the giver, I must make a restriction on the desire, that is, become dependent not on the pleasure but on the one who gives it.

For example if I sit in front of refreshments next to the host, I must reach a state in which the connection with the host will be more important to me than the refreshments. If I succeed, this is called passing the restriction (Tzimtzum). Everything depends on my desire.

If my desire for the refreshments is not very great, then the connection with the host is important to me; but if I am very hungry, then I see only what is in front of me on the plates.

That is, my desire determines what is more important to me: the pleasures or the host. Through my efforts, by various tactics, I must depict a picture in which the host is more important than the food.

The devices, as Rabash says, are the teacher, who gives direction, the books, and the group. With the help of the group, one attains a strong aspiration, a desire, and with the help of the books, one receives the light that correct the Kelim and return one to the source.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/23/26, Rabash, “The Measure of Practicing Mitzvot [Commandments]”

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