Question: On one hand, we say that one’s desire has to be clarified in order to know what to ask for. On the other hand, we do not know what is good or beneficial for us. How should we ask so that it is not according to the desires of the body?

Answer: I do not know what is beneficial for me and what is not. So how can I ask for anything?

The Creator does not take into account what you ask for. After all, you are like an uncomprehending infant. Rabash wrote in one of his articles about a child walking with his father and crying all the time, while the father does not react at all. They ask him, “What is the matter?” And he answers, “Do you know why my son is crying? He is asking for a pin so that he can clean his eye with it.”

Of course, the example is not entirely realistic. “Sight” and “pin” are all spiritual terms. The point is that the child is asking for something that could harm him. He does not understand what is good for him and what is bad. It seems good to him. So should we give him a pin? No, it is better to let him cry.

What is the benefit of tears? Why does the father not calm him down? Because in this way, through crying, the child will understand that his desires do not coincide with his father’s, and apparently the father knows better what is good for him. Then it is worthwhile to stop crying and start working on making his desires coincide with his father’s desires.

Let us say the father wants to buy him a beautiful book while the son wants a ball. But the father will buy the book anyway. And the child, through crying and tears, will nevertheless understand that his transition to the next state can happen only through the book, and gradually he himself will want it. And he will gradually examine his desire for the ball and come to the conclusion that all it does is make him cry, that it causes him pain.

At first, he will hate both his father and the book, and look for some other father who will give him a ball. But he will see that nothing will come of it until he wants his father as well as the book. Then he will definitely ask for the book because otherwise he will not receive it. And even if he does receive it, he will simply tear it apart. The father wants him to read it, while he would shred it. The book would be harmful to him.

Until the child learns how to use the book, and what benefit can be derived from it, he will not receive it. Look at the path he has to go through from his initial state, where he wants a ball, screams, and bursts into tears, to the desire to receive a book.

We are looking for how to approach people who want nothing but television, sex, food, and entertainment. How can you give them our books, which are so difficult, so that they will become interested and open them? People do not read anything at all.

How can we prepare a desire within humanity so that it will want Kabbalah, so that it will want a book instead of a ball? Two billion people watch football. If two million became interested in Kabbalah, the world would be turned upside down. And against the backdrop of what problems does the world watch these things?! What problems do people find themselves facing as a result?! It is something frightening. This is the power of the Klipa.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/30/26, Rabash, “What Does It Mean that Oil Is Called ‘Good Deeds’ in the Work?”

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