Question: Is bestowing for the sake of receiving the most egoistic act? What is “bestowing for the sake of receiving”?

Answer: We advance from the intention “Lekabel al menat Lekabel” (to receive for the sake to receive) to “Lehashpia al menat Lekabel” (to bestow for the sake of receiving), and further to “Lehashpia al menat Lehashpia” (to bestow for the sake of bestowal), and then to “Lekabel al menat Lehashpia” (to receive for the sake of bestowal). These are the stages of advancement.

If you enjoy what you are doing, then the question is: What kind of enjoyment is this? Are you using it as energy, as “fuel” for the work (otherwise you will not be able to do anything) or is the enjoyment your ultimate goal?

Is enjoyment a means or a goal? If enjoyment is only a means, then of course you need it, otherwise you will not be able to move forward at all, since from the very beginning your entire structure needs energy, and such enjoyment is the “fuel.”

Therefore, you ask the Creator: “Grant me the possibility of performing an act of bestowal.” Yet implicit in the words “give me the possibility” is the request: “Allow me to derive pleasure from the act of bestowal in such a way that I do not do it for self-enjoyment, but only so that the enjoyment will allow me to perform this act.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/21/26, Rabash, “We Should Always Discern Between Torah and Work”

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