If a person feels bad, like an ordinary person from the street, this still does not prompt them to think that there is some special solution. They do not think about where this bad state came from, for what purpose, how it can be avoided, and what one can come to.

Why doesn’t such awareness arise in them? The reason is that the surrounding light of the higher degree is, for now, illuminating the person’s opposite Kelim, Kelim that wish only to receive, to enjoy without any connection to bestowal, to the Creator, and this state does not change.

However, if these Kelim (even if a person is still completely immersed in egoism, in self-enjoyment) begin to study Kabbalistic books, then, as Baal HaSulam writes, even through a single desire to know (not to purify, but simply to know), they will draw the surrounding light upon themselves, which will attract the “charm of holiness” upon them. Then a person will gradually begin to understand that something called “bestowal” exists and perhaps it is something good.

It is the surrounding light that brings a person to the thought that it is something good. Precisely because this correction already exists within them (the thought that bestowal is something good), a person becomes closer to the surrounding light and to some extent connects with it. Their direction already coincides.

Then a person can receive the forces from the surrounding light that will develop this quality within them, the “charm of holiness,” the quality of bestowal.  In this way, by making efforts in the same direction, they ascend.

Therefore no preliminary knowledge is required from us, no special qualities. Any person can open a book and wish to rid themselves of all their troubles by the fact that, without understanding anything, they will read it. And that is all. One can begin from zero.

Gradually, as one advances, their intention is refined, and they begin to better understand where that sharp point is, the point toward which they must direct their thoughts each time more clearly and more precisely. Thus, with each time, they become more and more experienced.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson on 4/7/26, Rabash, “The Connection Between Passover, Matza, and Maror”

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