Comment: We say that a person should annul himself like an ox to the burden and a donkey to the load.

My Response: Working “like an ox to the burden and a donkey to the load” does not mean seeing oneself as inferior to the Creator and wanting to change one’s nature to the nature of the Creator. I resolve this issue based on my egoism, that I should act like this.

True free choice lies in wanting to receive advice on how to accomplish this through faith above reason. After all since you do not know how to bring this about! We supposedly have freedom of choice in this. That is exactly what is meant by: “Strengthen yourself on the path.”

In the “The Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot” it is written that the Creator puts a person’s hand on a good fate and says: “Take this for yourself.” He is not telling you to change the bad for the good. A person naturally chooses the good; there is no room for a choice here.

Every creation, whether inanimate, vegetative, animal, or human, chooses good instead of the bad. But this is not called a choice because nature forces him to do so even before he thinks or says anything. This happens automatically. There is no place for any decision-making.

For example, a chemist checks the interaction of two materials, how they connect to each other and what happens as a result of the reaction between them. Egoism is at the heart of all these interactions. When two materials interact, eventually a third one is produced. Is there any room for free choice in this? The chemist simply states the laws that already exist in the nature of the materials themselves.

The same laws apply to our material, the inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human parts of us. This means that the same laws apply to thoughts, desires, properties, and sensations—absolutely everything that relates to the human part in us.

So is it worth even mentioning it? After all, it is predetermined. You just feel it, but there is nothing you can do. It works with no connection to you. Pay attention to the position you are sitting in right now. Now you suddenly decide to change your position. Who decides this? Based on what data?

All this is already included within the system, within you. Why would you suddenly start doing something? The biological body acts all the time, or chooses how to act based on the data and materials it consists of.

You are also influenced by the external environment, by a general law that forces materials, thoughts, and desires to connect in a certain way. This law determines how data is processed.

This whole structure is called the desire to enjoy. You can call it “man or animal.” Our nature is not taken into account at all. Stop paying attention to it. We must finally understand that this is all our nature, and there is no need to analyze it at all.

These are exact laws the Creator initially established. If you want to get into these laws, you will gather in your baggage only various sciences of our world: psychology, medicine, chemistry, etc.

At all levels we explore our nature, the structure of the desire to receive. With the help of science we can accurately and correctly verify it. But what does it give us? This does not change anything, but we only see that the Creator created this desire this way. He created it! And then what? By these actions, we cannot get out of the desire to receive nor correct it.

There is nothing we can do except to state the facts as there is a desire to receive in all its manifestations, properties, and variations. Cooling produces one reaction, heating another, and creating pressure makes a third reaction.

The same law applies to thought processes and desires. Leave this desire to receive alone. It is not in our power to change it. We can only trace its laws.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/4/26, Rabash, “What Is Heaviness of the Head in the Work? ”

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