Question: Is our goal to acquire the intention for the sake of bestowal?

Answer: Ultimately, yes. But a person does not know what for the sake of bestowal means. He only increasingly feels his own insignificance and his distance from the goal. He reveals more and more of his egoistic nature and feels his helplessness.

Everything becomes distasteful to him. He has no strength left because his Kelim do not receive fulfillment. On the contrary, he feels the absence of fulfillment and sees that he is even farther from egoistic fulfillment than he had previously imagined.

What does it mean that “the children of Israel sighed because of the labor”? A person was already in such a state before, but now it is revealed to him that he cannot receive reward in the Kelim he presently has. The reward will be received in different Kelim.

Question: At first, is this simply a matter of thoughts?

Answer: Gradually, thoughts, desires, and definitions: “Who am I?” and “What is spirituality?” All the details contained within these inner definitions undergo change. They are transformed.

Most importantly, each time I define differently who I am and who the Creator is. These new definitions increasingly correspond to the truth. And because my definitions become more truthful, the revelation of evil takes place within me: I discover where I am, where the Creator is, and what my state truly is.

The formula here is very simple: a person makes efforts while feeling that he gains nothing from them. Then he exerts even more effort and receives even less. As a result, the correct need, the correct Hisaron (deficiency) is formed within him and eventually become what is called MAN.

Question: Does this also include work in the group?

Answer: In working with the friends, the despair, the effort, and the lack of reward are even greater. Because if a person could truly unite with the friends, he would already be satisfied with that.

In the end, there is nowhere he can receive a reward except from the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/19/26, Rabash, “The Difference between Charity and Gift”

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