Question: What is the use of my saying that I want to attain spirituality if my heart does not want it? What should I do?

Answer: The point is that “uttering with the lips,” speaking out loud, does not mean that you just open your mouth and speak. “Uttering with the lips” means performing various external actions that help you change your heart.

Suppose I go to listen to a lesson or to receive an impression from my friends, because the Creator created the human being by placing him in an environment so that the environment would influence him. And now I choose the best environment, more directed toward the goal.

When I am in an environment, I must push it to help it to be more precisely aimed at the goal, because the environment is essentially the only source that can influence me and change the desires in my heart. This is what it means to say a prayer with the lips. “Lips” or “mouth” (Peh) refers to the place of the screen (Masach), where I can, in a sense, make independent decisions.

Will I just open my mouth for n reason? Everyone lies and talks. A person has absolutely no idea what his “heart” is, what his “lips” are, and what the difference between them is.

We have only one action at our disposal through which we can change the desire in the heart. It is to purposefully listen to the influence of the environment while filtering out everything unnecessary. To do this I must plug my ears and open them only in the right place and for the right words, and isolate myself from everything else.

This is how I must act before the start of the lessons. Now let us clarify what happens during the lessons. Can I keep my thoughts and my heart focused toward spirituality during this time? As it is said: turn your mind and your heart toward the Torah to be rewarded with drawing the light contained in the Torah that returns to the source. This means that during the study I must constantly feel the need for the light to come and correct me with the intention to bestow.

And what actually happens? After the first word I read, I forget why I am studying and become completely absorbed in the reading and want to get to the bottom of the text’s meaning. I engage my intellect and seek to connect what I want from life with what I am studying.

And here I must listen to the group, to my friends. One can also suggest to oneself that such “brainwashing” also works, but the main thing is to hear from the environment that everything written in the book is talking about me, and that all the actions described in the book are what my soul goes through.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/14/26, Rabash, “What It Means that ‘Law and Ordinance’ Is the Name of the Creator in the Work”

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