Comment: A person is a desire to receive for himself. One will never ask for suffering.

My Response: Correct, a person wouldn’t ask for it, but what is suffering? Various desires are revealed in a person that differ from the desire of the Creator, yet they must be completely similar to Him.

The Creator shines on a person against every desire, and then gradually they begin to feel that something is wrong, although they still do not understand what is happening. These sufferings are the realization of our difference from the Creator.

Even now, whatever the reason for my suffering may be, it is a sign that in some way I am different from Him. This happens on the animate level as well as on the highest spiritual levels. Any suffering is due to the lack of similarity to the Creator, the discrepancy between the Kli and the light. Such a revelation pushes a person toward the goal. You do not have to be highly intellectual for this. If we pay attention to it, we can accelerate our development and awareness of it. But if we do not pay attention, we receive even greater suffering.

Question: What should we pay attention to?

Answer: To what is the source of suffering.

Comment: But I do not know what that is

My Response: What is knowledge for you? It is what you heard from someone or read in a book.

Knowledge is the receiving of light in the Kli. If a person simply suffers, this does not yet mean that he knows. “To know” means to attain the source of suffering. Gradually, it is revealed to a person how he can attain his source. And then you should only desire to investigate it, to work against suffering.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/10/26, Rabash, “What Is Above Reason in the Work?”

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