Question: What constitutes the maximum state of Lo Lishma (for the sake of receiving) from which we move transition into the altruistic state of Lishma (for the sake of bestowal)?

Answer: A person achieves 99% of bestowing and only 1% receiving. This is the maximum state of Lo Lishma; the final 1% of reception feels like 100% for them. This is how a person sees it, this is how one is calibrated so that sensitivity to this last percentage surpasses everything else.

It is written that “the Creator is exacting with the righteous to the hair’s breadth.” The evil inclination appears first like a strand of a spider’s web and later as cart ropes. To the righteous, it seems like a high mountain, but to sinners it seems like something insignificant. It would seem that all that is needed is to jump over a ten-centimeter groove, but for the righteous, it feels like a leap over an abyss. In reality, the opposite is true; the righteous have only a hair’s breadth to overcome, while sinners still face a towering mountain.

Question: Is there suffering involved in the sensation of Lo Lishma?

Answer: Of course. A person has invested much effort, studied, and worked in a group only to suddenly see an unassailable summit looming before him. The higher we ascend as we correct our egoism, the larger the egoism seems.

After all, we acquire a subtle sensitivity to it, see even a small flaw as if under a magnifying glass. This happens in any profession a person masters.

As for suffering, at the beginning of the journey it has a more material character, and then it becomes purposeful, or spiritual.

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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/10/12, Baal HaSulam “The Peace”

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