It is said: “Everyone who mourns for Jerusalem will merit seeing its joy.” This means that one must pray for the society. But what should one ask for? Does society even have a desire for spirituality? The point is that all the desires that exist in society belong to the person who is working on correction.

The desires are inside the people, and the intentions must be developed by the Kabbalist. Desire and intention are two distinct categories; they do not exist in the same place. When a Kabbalist works with the Masach (screen), Tzimtzum (restriction), and Ohr Hozer (reflected light), the desires start to become ordered and transformed in accordance with the intention with which he wants to use the desires.

Intention is called the “head,” and desire the “body.” We work on the “head,” on the intention, so that it will match the body, and then we can use the “body,” the desires. If such matching existed and then disappeared, this signifies the destruction (of the Temple). And if the matching between intention and desire is restored, that is the building of a spiritual Partzuf, its birth.

The Kli is the intention to bestow. The entire process of correction consists of attaining the right intention. The desires exist; they are simply not properly arranged, not supplied with the correct intention. No new desires appear.

The breaking, restriction, and concealment occur so that we can clarify the desires and begin to connect them. Just as an infant is born and begins to grow, so we correct the breaking and grow our soul.

We work on the intention to make it one of bestowal, directed toward giving pleasure to the Creator. In order to bestow to the Creator, we must concentrate the correct intention and select from the broken desires those that can work under its rule. From this we build a spiritual Partzuf, the measure of our bestowal.

Therefore, there were shatterings and preparations for correction , events that took place not through any fault of our own. The lower level played almost no part in this. The Egyptian exile, the desert, the destruction of the First Temple, the Babylonian exile, then the Second Temple, which was also destroyed, and the exit into this last exile–how could all of this happen?!

It was simply all preparation carried out from above. And now we only need to perform the final correction. Only it is counted as the work of the human being, while everything else was preparation.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/11/19, on topic “9th of Av (Tisha B’Av)”

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