A person’s actions in spiritual work are called: “Demand, and you shall receive reward.”

This is because a person does not actively participate in the correction itself; he does not correct anything on his own. Rather, he only brings about a state in which the Reshimo that is felt within him as having just been born, and the light that is meant to correct this Reshimo (spiritual record) can perform their work through him so that he becomes the one who evokes and initiates the correction.

To “demand” means to strive to reach correction so that the light will prevail over the Reshimo, and correct it to an intention for the sake of bestowal. And to “receive reward” means that a person aspires only to this state. What helps him, of course, is not the action itself, but solely his intention.

Thus, everything we do is aimed at attaining the receiving of the Torah in a small state (Katnut), which is called the counting of the Omer, in the animate state, when we eat “barley,” until we come to the “food of man.” The “food of man” is “bread,” faith, the degree of Shavuot. “And they went both of them together” refers to Bina and Malchut.

Therefore our work takes place even before the state of “demand and receive reward.” It is work above reason, work of drawing the light that performs within us the wondrous property of correction.

This is work against the “minister of forgetfulness,” who, as an effective force, helps us forget the previous state, and awaken a deficiency (Hisaron) for the next one.

These are the actions of preparation for the receiving of the Torah, for the festival of Shavuot.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/22/26, Rabash, Letter 59

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