One should be in the form of “willows of the brook,” tasteless and scentless. And one should delight in this work, even though he feels no flavor or fragrance in this work. And then this work is called “the letters of Your unified name,” by which we are rewarded with complete unification with the Creator (Baal HaSulam, Shamati, 85, “What Is the Fruit of a Citrus Tree, in the Work?”).

Question: How can we come from work where there seems to be no taste to a high degree of “the letters of Your unified name”?

Answer: When we get a taste for the quality of bestowal, we get a taste for spiritual work.

Precisely because you have no taste initially and you force yourself to work that you may develop a taste for bestowal, for the right connection, which you will begin to feel. We need to gradually understand this and hold on to this point of connection constantly.

Question: How can a person with no taste in the work not simply endure this state but transition to the property of bestowal?

Answer: The fact is that you cannot force it. Therefore, even if you fail to feel the closeness to the Creator in the quality of bestowal, you must continue to strive for this.

Those who do not abandon this goal and always want to reach adhesion with the Creator in the quality of bestowal eventually attain this quality and begin to feel it.

One develops different Kelim of bestowal, and begins to feel his new relationship with the Creator in them.

Question: Let’s say a friend does not have the strength to participate actively in all our events. What can he hope for? Could he find strength at the next stage, or can there be some internal switch?

Answer: Imagine that you remember your childhood, how you wanted to befriend someone, but that person did not want or understand it. So what could you do? You had to invent some tricks to attract him to you. In the same way, we need to involve our friend in our studies and gradually bring him closer to mutual bestowal to the Creator.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/21/24, “Sukkot”

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