Question: How can you determine what you must correct and how to correct it?

Answer: How can you determine your state, name it correctly, and measure it so that it becomes the cause for correction? I may be measuring my state, meaning my desire, since I have nothing else, but this does not compel me to make a decision.

I am in the desire to receive, which gives me either pleasure or suffering, and according to this I determine whether it is good or bad. Based on that, I use it or try to replace it (acquire a different desire to receive), and strive to enjoy something else. And if I cannot enjoy it, then let me not have the desire for it, I will suppress it.

A person always chooses what they can enjoy in the most useful and easiest form, so that there is as little effort as possible and as much pleasure as possible. This is our calculation. It is a natural calculation that everyone makes, from functioning on the still, vegetative, and animate levels to functioning on the speaking level within us. This is how it works on all levels of nature.

But if I want to learn how to enjoy more, I seek out systems, join various clubs, and learn from others. I develop the use of my desire to receive to the point where, legally or illegally, I can enjoy as much as society and the world allow. I simply constantly calculate what is beneficial and what is not; the maximum is always my goal.

According to this, we look at people and evaluate them. It is impossible to demand any other calculation because this is our nature.

Then why does a person receive blows from the upper governance, from the Creator? After all, the Creator created them in such a way that this is the only calculation they can make. You can ask scientists (biologists, psychologists, etc.) and they will say that this is our calculation. So why does the Creator, who made us this way, punish us? For what? For creating us like this?

The Creator does not punish us. What comes to us from Him is not in order to punish us, but in accordance with the law that says that there is not only the desire to receive in us. There is also another force that is in us at the preparatory stage—the desire to bestow.

Therefore we must begin to make calculations that take it into account. To do this we must begin to calculate between the desire to receive and the desire to bestow. To the extent that we do not make a calculation in accordance with the level of our development, we experience suffering.

If we would force ourselves to calculate not only about how much I want to enjoy, but also how much I should give enjoyment to others, and if I did this correctly in relation to myself and others according to my development, then I would be in a good state. I would not feel any suffering.

Suppose, according to my development, I should give 20 to 30% and receive 80%, this is my current level. It will increase and I will need to give more and receive less. If I knew this law, if I knew what is demanded of me and carried it out, I would always feel comfortable and good because this is, in essence, the law that affects me.

Why do we not see this law? We would make the calculation in order to feel good.

But the goal is not to feel good in the desire to receive. The calculation (how much for me and how much for others) must come, not only from the desire to receive, but from the desire to adhere to the Creator, to resemble Him. Bestowal itself is also not the goal. The goal is to resemble the Creator, to be like Him, so the law according to which I must bestow is not revealed to me.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/25/26, Rabash, “What Does It Mean That the Creation of the World Was by Largess?”

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