Question: A person goes through various states where he is literally consumed by desires. Can this be controlled?

Answer: Who talks about controlling anything? How many times have I reiterated that you have no control over anything except one thing: accelerating your development, following the principle of “do whatever is in your power to do!”

Do you see what the Kabbalists advise? “You are foolish; you do not see or understand anything, so do everything faster.” That is all. The great, rich science of Kabbalah and the wise Kabbalists who see from one end of the world to the other, what do they advise you to do?

Question: How is this acceleration expressed? In my attitude or in my physical actions?

Answer: No, this is the wrong question. Perhaps it is more correct to ask: “What am I achieving through my thoughtless actions, with no understanding or awareness? Who can really rely on their own reason? What does it mean to ‘Do everything in your power?’”

At every moment, as far as your current awareness and understanding of what needs to be done for your development based on the Kabbalists’ advice, act accordingly. That is all. That is how it works.

Question: Let us say I am sitting at a set table; I want to make a restriction not to receive for myself, but to give to the Creator. But to calm myself down, I use an even greater egoism. So how can I find peace?

Answer: You are saying the following: “I am sitting at the table, I want to eat and I am suffering. To avoid suffering, I am already using egoism not for the sake of getting pleasure, but a stronger egoism: the desire to stop suffering. That is, I use greater egoism.” That is correct. Stage Bet (2) is more egoistic than stage Aleph (1), with greater Aviut. You are right.

So, you have calmed yourself down from the perspective of the desire to receive by feeling the Creator. If you had another opportunity to calm yourself down, you would never have reached stage Dalet.

All development comes from the development of the desire to receive. Naturally, out of a desire to calm down, it discovers that the Creator is there within itself. I do not have enough words. This is a rather subtle question. How do the light and Kli interact? How do they become really close partners?
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/27/26, Rabash, “What Is the Work of Man, in the Work that Is Attributed to the Creator?”

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