The correct desire (Hisaron) is built through invested efforts, even if initially a person has no desire for spirituality. The main issue is not even the absence of such a need. Perhaps the desire exists, but it is still incorrect, not directed toward the one true goal to which we must aspire. However, if a person works and invests effort, everything gradually changes.

If he gives his strength, but receives nothing in return, if he constantly exerts efforts, yet again and again remains with nothing, without any reward, then from one time to the next the nature of his work changes. And the nature of the lack of response to his efforts also changes, until he feels the correct Hisaron for the correct goal. This is called the formation of MAN within him.

At first, a person supposedly “aspires to spirituality” because he still does not know what he is truly drawn to or what spirituality actually is. Therefore, his aspiration is very general, undefined, and unclear. He is tossed from one state to another, from one thought to another. He tries to connect concepts such as spirituality and corporeality now with one thing, now with another, and his understanding of both spirituality and corporeality constantly changes.

And so gradually, through this instability, through the inability to hold onto any stable state, and through efforts, as it is said, “Whatever is in your power to do, that do,” a person performs a certain work, and then many things begin to clarify.

He acquires a more precise perception of such concepts as “altruism” and “bestowal,” which do not belong to our world but exist above it. By connecting these concepts with bestowal to the Creator, he understands that this quality is opposite to the nature embedded within him.

Previously, he was completely unaware of all these things. He was not troubled by the fact that the quality of bestowal contradicts his nature. He thought it was possible to desire spirituality while remaining exactly as he was. He simply wanted spirituality, nothing more. He still did not connect spirituality with the nature of selfless bestowal, which is opposite to human nature.

But as he continues working, his understanding gradually changes until his Hisaron takes on the correct form. Years may pass before the correct prayer, MAN, is formed within him; only then will he undoubtedly receive the correct answer (response) from above. The upper one will raise him to a higher degree, “on the wings of eagles.”

Then the person completes the preparatory period, becomes similar in qualities to the AHP of the upper one, and his Kli raises MAN. From that point onward, he already performs spiritual actions.

But all the time during which he invested effort, energy, and thought in order to attain spirituality was not time wasted. This period was necessary for him in order to clarify what he should aspire to and what he should truly desire.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/19/26, Rabash, “The Difference Between Charity and Gift”

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