14. Sep. 2026 05:33 -
Question: Why is the correction of Bina, Hafetz Hesed, so powerful that it can be stronger than the desire to receive?
Answer: The desire to receive is immense. It corresponds to the Creator; indeed, He created the desire to receive to stand opposite all the might, all the power, and everything that exists in the Creator. “God created one opposite the other.”
Otherwise, the desire to receive would not have the capacity to contain the entire Creator, all the light being revealed, and, in addition, the ability to bestow upon Him in return.
Within the desire to receive there is a powerful capacity that exactly corresponds to the Creator. The light created the vessel in accordance with His greatness, with everything that is contained within the light. Even the giver is within this light and places Himself within the vessel. It is only revealed gradually. But in the light that existed in the thought of creation, everything was already contained: all the lights, all the days, and the entire development, as it is written: “He saw from one end of the world to the other.”
When the Creator created the desire to receive through the light, He already embedded the pleasure that He intended to give within the light, and placed Himself within it with all His qualities. He even placed His desire to give pleasure within it, so that the creation would work with it and, not only strive for pleasures, but also want to give pleasure itself, like the Creator. All these things are contained within the light. And all of them, like a seal and its imprint, pass into the desire to receive; they simply have to be revealed gradually.
So where does such enormous power exist in Hassadim, when it is only Hesed, which merely wants to bestow? Where does it have such great strength to work against the desire to receive?
At first glance, this seems impossible. Therefore, a descent took place from above downward, from the world of infinity to this world. What does this descent mean? It means moving away from the state of infinity into the smallest possible state in relation to infinity.
And from this state, in which infinity is revealed only to a tiny degree, let us say, to one-billionth of the world of infinity, a person begins making a restriction, and then performs the actions of bestowal for the sake of bestowal and reception for the sake of bestowal on this one-billionth portion.
Then he is given two or three parts out of this billion, and this is called approaching infinity along the ladder of degrees, where each degree is a certain portion of the state of infinity: one-billionth, two-billionths, and so on. And at every degree, one must make restrictions, just as in infinity.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/25/26, Rabash, “When a Person Knows What Is Fear of the Creator”
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