Question: A person works; later on, he loses energy, becomes disappointed, and asks for help from the Creator. Where in this chain is room for restriction? What makes one ask for power to restrict their desire?

Answer: A person asks for power perform restriction if they can see one step ahead. One needs to step back and check what state precedes the one they desire.

It is similar to a computer when one can open a few windows one after another one: It is possible to navigate to one window ahead, and it is possible to navigate back to the preceding window. You go to the preceding one in order to find out what parameters are required in order to reach restriction in the next state.

You will receive this power from above on condition that you prepare yourself, ask for power, reveal this power, and have a need for it. What should be your preceding state in order for this to happen with you? It is the state when you will be like Moses standing up to Pharaoh.

When you accurately reveal that your desire to receive is so bad and brings you such blows and calamities that you do not have any way to save yourself, but to escape and hide from it.

You cannot truly escape it. Perhaps you try to flee, but it does not help you detach yourself from the underlying intention since Pharaoh is not the desire to receive itself, but rather the intention to derive pleasure for one’s own sake. The only thing that is considered positive or negative is our intention based on its direction: for the Creator or one’s own benefit.

The desire to receive itself is only discussed in terms of its magnitude. The right line, the attributes of the Creator and the intention to bestow is built upon the magnitude of the desire to receive. The left line, the intention for the sake of oneself, is built upon that same desire to receive.

Both lines must correspond to the full extent of the entire desire to receive in this world and be opposite one to another inside of you to the extent that you would be ready for everything, but only to exit from the power of the left line while you reveal the right line. This is the meaning of the phrase “Let’s go to Pharaoh!”

Moses by himself is unable to do anything, since Pharaoh controls the desire to receive “he rules in Egypt.” Only because the Creator comes together with Moses, He shines through the point “Moses” to all of Egypt and therefore there appears such a notion as the people of Israel, meaning there come additional forces and properties that desire to exit from Egypt. They are the ones that go through the restriction: separating them from Pharaoh, from Egypt.

The people of Israel are the ones who exit Egypt, but not the Egyptians. Therefore, nothing changes in Egypt. All blows, all plagues in Egypt are needed only to take out Galgalta ve Eynaim that is included in AHP there.

Question: Does the restriction occur only after the recognition of evil?

Answer: The restriction follows the phase of recognition of evil: the recognition that any contact with the desire to receive is death. In essence, it is scrutinized after the ten plagues.
[360531]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/17/26, Rabash, “What Are Commandments that a Person Tramples with His Feet”

Related Material:
How to Receive the Strength of Restriction from Above
Restriction Means Refraining from Using the Desire to Receive
On The Other Side Of The Final Sea

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Spiritual Work | Add Comment →