Question: How does the absence of fulfillment on one hand lead to a Hisaron (a lack) on the other? How does the Creator teach me through sufferings?

Answer: The Creator indeed teaches me through suffering. How? He does not allow me to enjoy the delicacies lying on the table. And I want to flee from the sufferings; I do not want to feel hunger. The table itself is no longer important to me; I no longer chase after the enjoyment itself; it is as if I gave up hope ever obtaining it. My goal is to find peace, not through pleasures, and it does not matter that I will have no desire for them.

We act this way instinctively. “A simple person does not desire the king’s daughter.” Why should he suffer? He knows he will never obtain her. Then I, as it were, reduce my Hisaron; I do not even want to think about this.

But I am not allowed to do this. All my egoism, my inner desires, constantly develop and still lead me to suffering. I am not able to completely silence myself or find peace. And so I come to a state where I seek only one thing: how to avoid suffering?

The question of how to avoid suffering” transforms into a question about the meaning of life, which ultimately leads me to search for a solution. “Is there any way to find peace?” But how? “Taste and see how good the Creator is.” And that is all.

Let go of all that you think about pleasure, for there is another source from which you will be filled and will enjoy.

What is this? The Creator. And who is this? I do not know. Seek Him! This is the only solution in order to cease suffering.

You will never receive what lies on the table. You will see the host; you will see how good He is, that He thinks of you, and all this will fill you. The Creator reveals Himself as fulfillment instead of natural fulfillment.
[361402]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/27/26, Rabash, “What Is the Work of Man, in the Work that Is Attributed to the Creator?”

Related Material:
Take a Step Forward
Escape Suffering Or Exalt Spirituality?
Dissolve Our Egoism

Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 234

What Should We Do When Other Thoughts Arise During the Study?

We can sit in a lesson, our body seated in a chair, while traveling around the world in our mind, completely absent from the lesson. It is written that a person is where his thoughts are, but that is not the point here. If we are truly engaged in the study, yet we ruminate over some issue, that is an incorrect thought. If we think about various matters related to our activities in the group, those too are incorrect thoughts that distract us from the study. During the study, we should feel ourselves united with the entire group in connection with the Creator through the study material. This is all we should yearn for.

Related Material:
Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 233
Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 232
Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 231

Question: What does a person’s choice actually consist of? After all, if one acts from the desire to receive for oneself, will he be able to make a real choice?

Answer: A person’s choice is not in calculating something and choosing between various options; rather, it lies in constantly forcing oneself to continue the spiritual work. Nothing more. You do not choose the path. You choose where to get more strength for the effort, in order to push yourself a little more, to advance just a little further. Choice is in accelerating time.

What path could you possibly choose? Do you understand anything about the corrections? Do you know what your next state is or what your present state is? How do you move from one to the other? What will come of it? Of course, we are not the ones who do this. If we try to proceed based solely on our own understanding, it is simply foolishness.

Yesterday I met a professor (a very intelligent, insightful person, a specialist in his field, and a senior executive and project manager in a large company. He kept saying, “I have to see, I have to understand…” This is very difficult to grasp. In general, theoretically, we might be able to see something, but regarding oneself, one’s next state, a person never sees anything in advance. After all, the most difficult thing is the recognition of one’s own evil.

We can only apply pressure in order to advance and catch a glimpse of the past. Truly seeing the present is impossible right now. Only after crossing  the Machsom can one see the degree that has been passed. But as long as we have not crossed the Machsom, we have not yet passed even the first degree. After all, everything we are going through now is merely a single degree of our world.
[361354]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/27/26, Rabash, “What Is the Work of Man, in the Work that Is Attributed to the Creator?”

Related Material:
Increase the Speed of Advancement
How Can You Avoid Wasting Time?
How Should We Spend Our Time?

Comment: When a person passes the Machsom, they feel shame before the giver of pleasure. But there is also the act of looking back at everything one experienced up to that moment.

My Response: Even before crossing the Machsom, a person stops thinking about and looking at their past. There is no past. One who constantly looks back becomes like Lot’s wife who turned into a pillar of salt, into something that does not spoil. Salt itself cannot be used as food, only as an additive.

Why, then, do we need to justify everything that happened? Is it so that a person sees that he went through all of this in order to gather Kelim and inner definitions for the present? No one sits like an old man reminiscing about his past at the end of correction (Gmar Tikkun).

If we continue, we will soon become convinced that the past in itself is absolutely unimportant and may be needed only for the present. You will not think about the past or regret something that you once did or did not do.

Such an attitude will disappear because it is incorrect. This is not you at all. You do not need to cross the Machsom for this, because the realization that one should not look back occurs long before it.
[361374]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/26, Rabash, “What Is ‘The Concealed Things Belong to the Lord, and the Revealed Things Belong to Us,’ in the Work?”

Related Material:
It Is Pointless To Regret What Was Swallowed In Ein Sof
There Is Nothing Worse Than Regretting The Past
It Wasn’t Me!