Question: If I must strive to rise to a higher degree because I want to find a better state there, am I simply running away from suffering?

Answer: Why do you think the exodus from Egypt did not happen through suffering? You ask why I must advance by the path of suffering. It is because you are in the will to receive for your own sake and do not even know it; you must gradually begin to become aware of it and become acquainted with your egoism.

In the will to receive itself there is nothing bad; it is bad only relative to the Creator; relative to this world it is ordinary. We see how in people with great egoistic desires succeed our world.

They earn a lot of money and rule over those whose will to receive is not so great. As a result, those who do not need more than to earn a livelihood somewhere work for the one in whom the will to receive is great. He becomes the boss, the owner, and they become his workers.

It turns out that for our world the will to receive is a good, useful thing. And only if the Creator is revealed a little and He wants to advance the person and humanity, then to that extent He reveals the evil inherent in this state. And if we did not compare it with the Creator, we would not find anything bad in the will to receive itself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/7/26, Rabash, “The Connection between Passover, Matza, and Maror”

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