Working in the mode of bestowal is called life, much like the way our life unfolds. But unlike eternal life, our earthly life in a physical body comes to an end, and each of its moments is separated from the others alternating between states of lack and small, temporary fulfillments.

In the process where you constantly fill the Creator, since His vessel is boundless, you have the opportunity to continually increase your bestowal. This allows you to constantly experience eternal life, without end or limit, filling up, expanding, and extending yourself without limit.

Therefore, praising and exalting the Creator are means by which you can bring Him delight. If you have awareness of the greatness of the Creator, a sense of His glory, this gives you the ability to bestow naturally, much as it happens in this world. After all, when you meet a great person, you naturally want to give him something, serve him, be attentive, and show honor and respect.

Consequently, our challenge, while we remain in a state of concealment, lies in being able to visualize the greatness of the Creator. If we succeed in doing this, the Creator truly begins to reveal Himself to us little by little. Then, based on this revelation, we become capable of transforming His greatness into a form of reception, not for self-gratification, but for the sake of bestowal.

When the Creator is revealed, my vessels (Kelim) yearn to receive His unveiled, visible greatness. At that point, I perform a Tzimtzum (restriction), and a new phase of work begins, one through which I can receive for the sake of bestowal.

Before the Creator is revealed, I am capable only of bestowal for the sake of bestowal. But when the Creator is revealed, it is a sign that I have reached a state in which I am able to work in the mode of receiving for the sake of bestowal. Thus, opposite my desire to receive stands a pleasure that I can already restrain, and as if undergoing a phase shift, literally a complete inversion, transform into bestowal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/17/26, Rabash “What Is the Difference between Law and Judgment in the Work?”

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