Any action a person performs without an inner intention, without a sense of why one is doing it, is an inanimate action at the level of “Domem” (still). Yet the actions themselves prepare intentions in a person.

This is not to say that someone who does something in a group does not advance, because he is included in the group, and the group influences him with its intentions. We cannot measure and say, “This is just an action that carries nothing for me, there is no advancement in it.”

The thing is, if you are doing an action now and working with intention later, they connect. You do not always use intention while performing an action.

For example, if I am currently busy translating or creating a program and need to fully immerse myself in it, I have almost no opportunity to use my intention while doing so. But there is a general preparation, a background context, that defines why am I doing this and how I came to this. That is, in many cases, it is impossible to combine intention and action, and yet, they accompany each other.

It is important, however, that they align at the time of study. As Baal HaSulam writes in item 4 of the “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot,” it is very important that the intention and the study itself come together. This is called a united effort. Realizing the reason for studying is very important; without it, all learning yields no results.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/14/26, Rabash, “Why the Speech of Shabbat Must Not Be as the Speech of a Weekday, in the Work”

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