How can one come from Lo Lishma to Lishma? It is written: “When teaching children, women, and uneducated people, they are taught to work only out of fear and in order to receive reward. Until they gain knowledge and acquire much wisdom, they are taught that secret little by little”. This means that within us, there are certain qualities called “women, children, and uneducated people.” And if I begin to study the method of advancing toward the Creator, even if I have nothing except these qualities, I can still advance from them and reach their correction, reach the goal.

In essence, this is how everyone begins. No one is born a great Kabbalist. Of course, everyone has a different level of preparation according to what a person has gone through in previous incarnations, but no one is born with qualities that are ready to feel the upper one and to live in the upper world.

You yourself must create the desires to feel the spiritual world within you; you create them out of sufferings, one after another! Otherwise, you will not feel the thirst for knowledge and will not feel its fulfillment.

There is no other way but to go step by step, desire after desire. It cannot be acquired in any other way. Everyone must go through the entire path. Therefore, you are given the opportunity to choose whether to shorten the path, to pass it quickly and joyfully, or to stretch it out and receiving blows and suffering.

What is the purpose of suffering and prolonging time? How do they help, what do they prevent? In any case, you go through the same degrees, but at each of them, until you acquire mind and reason, you suffer and receive blows that return you to the previous state.

For example, you are standing before a difficult problem, before an obstacle: “I am tired of all this. I do not want it anymore. The goal is far away; maybe they are right, but in just a few months I have already heard everything they talk about here. In short, I do not feel that I can stay here. I will go home.”

And so your life returns to its usual track. Blows and sufferings begin, but you still do not connect them with anything: “Everyone in this world suffers.” You spin around, burn your life, you are born again, and so it continues until you return to the thought that it is impossible to live like this, and the same question arises again: “What is the meaning of my life?” Then you will come again to Kabbalah, and again you will find yourself in a state in which you will need the support of the environment.

In other words, if in the previous state (when you left everything and went away) you had turned to the environment and received support, desires, impressions, excitement, and inspiration of the feeling of the greatness of the goal from it, you could have advanced successfully. But instead, you drop out for dozens of years only to return to the same place, being more ready to listen to the environment. That is all that has changed.

All our study is intended only for this: at every degree, at every step, to protect us from such dropouts that last dozens of years, and to move forward without deviating to the side. This is our entire choice.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/9/26, Rabash, “What Does It Mean that Before the Egyptian Minister Fell, Their Outcry Was Not Answered, in the Work?”

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