We have one single Kli (vessel), called Malchut. This Kli is incapable of receiving in the form of bestowal. One may use it in a manner resembling a vessel (Kli) of bestowal, but in order to truly transform the Kli into one that receives for the sake of bestowal, an enormous amount of preliminary work must first be done. This preparatory work is called the general correction of the Kli.

For this purpose, a screen is built over it so that all the desires within Malchut operate in the mode of not receiving for one’s own sake. In each desire, the greatness of the Creator and the greatness of the goal must become so significant that none of the desires would wish to remain in a state opposite to connection with the Creator.

When you feel within all your desires that not a single one wants to detach from the Creator, then in each of them, you sense that separation lies in receiving for oneself. The moment you take for yourself, you instantly become separated from the Creator. Then a fear appears within you, like a burning fire, and this is called being under the power of the restriction.

After you are equipped with such a shield, it becomes possible to begin giving each desire the form of bestowal. What does this mean? You ask the Creator to learn the manner in which He bestows upon you from Him. You learn, not what He gives you, but precisely how, in what way. And the Creator explains this to you through His actions. This is called: “From Your actions we shall know You.”

How does an infant behave? He only wishes to receive milk from his mother without knowing how it happens, what is done for it, or how it is fed; it makes no difference to the infant: “This is simply what I deserve.” Later, the baby begins to understand where all this comes from and how it is carried out. If a child wants to resemble its parents, he or she first examines exactly how they act and what they do.

Likewise, you must study the actions of the Creator. It is not simply that the light comes to me from the Sefirah of Yesod; before that, there are many different actions through which the Creator influences me. Then, from my former desire (when I wished only to receive the light) a new desire develops: to use my natural desire to receive in order to build a system like the one the Creator possesses when delighting me.

The Creator has nine systems through which He delights me with pleasures suited to me. And my system, the tenth point called Malchut, receives these pleasures and enjoys them. Now, based on the fact that I enjoy them, I want to build a system that functions exactly like the system of the Creator.

Thus, I must acquire this entire system from Him, only in reverse form, reverse relative to my desire to receive.

How does Malchut, after having received one of the many pleasures corresponding to a specific desire and using it, perform an act of bestowal? It literally acquires the first nine Sefirot. But what does “acquires” mean?

It is not as though the first nine Sefirot are simply attached to Malchut and then used together, as we usually depict. All these first nine Sefirot must become integrated into the system of the desire to receive, which must absorb this form within itself. In other words, the desire to receive adopts the inner form of the system of the Creator.

We are not speaking about Atzmuto (His Essence), but about the Creator (Boreh), meaning His relation toward me. Thus, I truly absorb all His systems into myself and, according to my desire to receive, transform them so that they operate for the sake of bestowal from within it rather than from within the desire to bestow.

The desire to bestow begins from Keter deYesod. But I begin from Malchut and invert these first nine Sefirot into reversed nine Sefirot, and thus, there are now direct and reflected light. Now I possess ten Sefirot of reflected light. This corresponds to Malchut becoming Keter, while Hochma turns into Yesod, which now influences Keter that has become Malchut for it.

When a person completes all this work, they truly become like the Creator, not only in their actions but also in spiritual status.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/17/26, Rabash, “What Is the Difference between Law and Judgment in the Work?”

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