Question: If I ask the Creator for what is good for me from His point of view, but at the same time I feel bad in my Kelim, what should I do? Should I ask for something else so that I, too, will feel good?

Answer: If a person asks the Creator to make him feel good while he is still not in adhesion with the Creator, that is, while his desires have not yet been corrected, then what he thinks is good for him is actually the opposite of what is truly good for him. So how can I simply ask for something good?

You can ask the question differently. At this moment I am in a certain state. In every moment, every second of this state, I am turned toward the Creator.

Why? My body, from the simplest cell to all the systems of the organism, the brain, desires, psychological and psychosomatic systems, hormones, and feelings, is constantly at work. The desire that sustains life exists in every cell of the body and, in general, throughout the whole body. All these desires are already directed toward the Creator even before I have “become clever” and imagine that I can control them or direct them in a certain way.

Just because I have read or heard somewhere that it would be better if I thought differently from what my body demands, does that change my body? Will my cells suddenly begin to function differently? No! Will my thoughts suddenly work differently? No. It changes nothing! Everything I read about how wonderful it would be to act “for the sake of bestowal” and so on, all of that is outside of me. I cannot control my desires!

When I read something and learn all kinds of wisdom, I am merely filling my mind with information. It does not touch my desires at all. My desires are the direct consequence of the light, which forms them. This is precisely what we study: The light, through the four phases of direct light, creates the desire, and when it enters the desire, it impels it to go through the entire process of development.

In other words, I have absolutely no ability to control my desires. The only way I can influence them is by turning to the Creator. Then, in response to my request, or His command, the Creator changes my desire. He sends a particular Light, and through its action and development it builds the desire that I seem to be asking for within me. Only through Him can I change my desires. This is why He is called the Creator (Maatzil).

It is not that He created me once and then finished His work, leaving me to govern myself. Nothing could be further from the truth! I never govern myself. Only if I can turn to Him and ask Him, only through Him can I bring about any change within myself. Only in this way! So what does it matter whether I have read something in a book or not? That, in itself, does not change me inwardly at all.

We must understand that all these things are completely artificial and external. There is nothing in them that can bring about change by itself. Their only purpose is to increase the intensity of the surrounding illumination so that, through study, dissemination, and work in the group, we attract the surrounding light, which alone brings about the changes.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/30/26, Rabash, “What Does It Mean that Oil Is Called ‘Good Deeds’ in the Work?”

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