A correct Hisaron (deficiency, lack) is a purposeful aspiration to acquire the power of bestowal.

Suppose I have a healthy desire to receive all kinds of pleasures of this world, and in addition, I have received a point in the heart, that is, a desire to enjoy the future world. I do not know what the future world is, but I feel a need for additional pleasures, I need more than what this world can offer. Then a question arises: how can I give this desire for the future world the correct form?

If I simply increase this desire, then what emerges is a “Pharaoh,” enlarged egoism: “I want spirituality!!!” How can such an egoistic aspiration give rise to a desire of Lishma, that is, a desire directed toward the Creator?

The state of Lo Lishma implies that two desires exist within me simultaneously: I want spirituality, I want to acquire the power to bestow upon the Creator, and at the same time I want to receive for my own sake. In other words, in the state of Lo Lishma I consist of two desires—one toward the Creator and one toward myself.

Where do I, through working with my point in the heart, acquire the desire to bestow to the Creator? The desire to bestow appears within me even before the Machsom; it begins to manifest itself and grow within me.

But where does this desire come from? How is it born within me? That is the question.

I begin my spiritual development from the point in the heart, and gradually, two desires develop from this initial state: 1) A desire directed toward myself; that is, I enlarge my point in the heart and desire spirituality for my own sake. 2) A desire directed toward the Creator.

How does this happen? The reason is that the development of the point in the heart occurs under the influence of the surrounding light (Ohr Makif), which brings us the “charm of holiness” (Chen deKedusha).

Without the influence of the surrounding light, the point in the heart would simply grow in size while remaining at the level of a desire to absorb the entire spiritual world:

“I want the upper world! Give it to me, and that is all!” And its development would stop at this point. How does an aspiration toward the Creator arise within this egoistic desire for spirituality?

It is the result of the influence of the surrounding light. But under what conditions does the surrounding light actually influence me? Only if I seek ways to return to the source, to the root of bestowal. And the aspiration to return to the source arises within me as a result of working in the group.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘If a Woman Inseminates First, She Delivers a Male Child,’ in the Work?”

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