According to our path, the meaning is that

We have two paths—

Either to follow the path of those who come

to the Creator,

whose path is the path of bestowal,

or a path that leads to people,

which is the reception,

Since creatures are called “creatures”

only concerning reception and self-love,

which comes to us from

The center of creation.

In that respect,

There was a Tzimtzum (restriction) and concealment,

So, in this place, it is not evident

that the whole earth is FULL of His glory

Since it is possible to attain

that the whole earth is full of His glory

Only when one exits the place of reception

But before exiting the reception,

One can only believe that it is so.

To be able to feel this,

We have been advised to exit the place of reception,

which is the place of

darkness and death.

That is,

The light of life

cannot appear although it is present,

But it is hidden from man, and one who reaches that place

It is separated from the source of life.

Therefore,

That place is called

“darkness and death,”

And all kinds of calamities are present there.

This is called

Sitra Achra (the other side),

meaning it is the opposite of

Kedusha (holiness)

 A place of Kedusha,

is called a “place of bestowal,”

It is a place of equivalence of form

Therefore,

In that place,

All delight and pleasure appear,

Since it is a place of blessing and sanctity. 

 Rabash: The Life of Sarah, Article No. 7, Tav – Shin – Mem – Hey, 1984-85

Each day,

When a person digs the foundation,

He digs into the depths of the ground

and does not go back to

working on what he has already worked on yesterday.

But the progress is in deepening,

and the measure of the depth of the digging

is until he receives a genuine need for the Creator’s help,

to help him have the desire to work to bestow

“Penny by penny

accumulates into a great amount.”

Finally,

from all the digging, he arrives at such a depth 

that it is possible to build a building on it

That is worthy of being rewarded,

With all the lights of his soul,

With which one should be rewarded.

RABASH, Article No. 16 (1988), “What Is the Foundation on which Kedusha [Holiness] Is Built?”

It is known that the purpose of creation is

His desire to do good

to His creations,

meaning that all created beings will feel

that they are receiving delight and pleasure

from the Creator.

However,

for the Creator’s will to be carried out

with the wholeness of the goal,

meaning that there would be no shame,

There was a correction called “Tzimtzum (restriction) and concealment.”

Meaning that

there was a restriction and concealment 

on two actions:

1. The Creator Himself is concealed from us,

And we must believe that He is treating us

With private providence over all creations.

2. The true delight and pleasure are in the 613 Mitzvot.

However, this too is hidden,

And we must believe

That it is where we will find delight and pleasure.

Still,

This concealment was only

for the benefit of the created beings,

So there would be no shame

over the reception of delight and pleasure,

meaning that the creatures would not feel

shamed when receiving,

because it feels like the opposite of the Creator.

What Are a Blessing and a Curse in the Work? Article No. 42, Tav-Shin-Nun, 1989/90

Before a person qualifies himself

to be fit to receive wholeness,

He cannot see the length of the way that he has

already traversed on his way toward the goal of wholeness,

For only at the end of his work will he be able to see,

but not midway,

Since he will not be able to receive His abundance

Before he has completed Kelim,

That is ready for it. 

This is why we must brace ourselves and say

that we are already near the king’s palace,

For every penny joins

into a great amount, 

and perhaps soon

We will see that the gate is open before us,

And we will be rewarded with entering and delighting

With the king.

RABASH, Letter No. 65

We must always consider the goal,

which is to “do good to His creations.”

If the evil inclination comes to a person

and asks him all of Pharaoh’s questions,

He should not reply with lame excuses, but say,

“Now, with your questions,

I can begin with the work of bestowal.”

This means that we should not say

about the question of the evil inclination

that it came to us to lower us from our degree

 On the contrary,

Now it is giving us a place to work,

by which we will ascend the degrees of wholeness.

That is, any overcoming in the work is called

“walking in the work of the Creator,”

Since each penny joins into a great amount.”

That is,

all the times we overcome accumulate to a certain measure

required to become

A kli for the reception of abundance.

RABASH, Article No. 22 (1985), “The Whole of the Torah Is One Holy Name

It is known that our vessels

come from the shattering

of the vessels

This breaking means that we want to use

The vessels of reception to receive,

And this is considered separation

from the Creator.

By working with our desires to receive—which come from there—

in order to bestow,

We correct a piece of these vessels each time,

which are in the Klipot (Shells),

And we elevate them to Holiness

When we want to work only to bestow

contentment to the Creator.

Each time and every day,

Slowly, parts of the Klipot

—called “for the sake of receiving”—

are clarified.

They are corrected

so they may be used for the sake of

bestowal.

The order is that one part is elevated to Kedusha,

And then we descend to a state of reception once more,

and even forget that there is a matter of bestowal.

But then we receive an ascent once again,

We take the part of the desire to receive in us, overcome it,

and correct it to work for the sake of bestowal.

This repeats each time

until we acquire a certain measure

of reception that has received

The correction of bestowal.

In that sense,

There will be room

for the upper abundance to enter.

This vessel is made by adding all the ascents one has

In this vessel. as it is written:

“Penny by penny adds up to a great amount.”

 Rabash – Why Is the Festival of Matzot Called “Pesach”? Article No. 13, 1987

This lack that a person begins to feel,

that he cannot work for the sake of the Creator,

is called a Kli [vessel]

meaning,

a need for someone to help him,

have a desire to work

for the sake of the Creator

The help he receives from above

is regarded as the Creator helping him,

which is regarded as “light.”

Those two appear one at a time, and not at once.

This is why it was said,

“Man’s inclination

overcomes him every day.”

 That is,

The light and the Kli

are not completed in one day.

Rather,

it is as it is written,

“Penny by penny, join into a great amount,

 until the Kli

receives the full measure of the lack

that is suitable to receive light in full.

RABASH, Article No. 17 (1989), “What Is the Prohibition to Greet Before Blessing the Creator, in the Work?”

This means that one must unify everything with the Creator,

That is, even the exits come from Him.

And when one is rewarded,

He sees that both the exits and the entries

—All came from Him.

This is the meaning of patience.

Lowliness exists in everyone,

But not every person feels that lowliness is something good.

Therefore,

One does not want to suffer

Shamati 121. She Is Like Merchant Ships

The work of the Creator

requires great persistence,

Whatever happens to him

Remember this well,

For you will need it very much

As you begin the work of the Creator

It requires great tenacity, and to be strong and brave,

to brace oneself and stand still,

Even if you are dropped down

every time

You must not allow yourself to fall off altogether,

for it is necessary to experience all those falls, descents,

and confusions before entering the gates of Kedusha [holiness],

and the true righteous, too, have gone through all of it.

Know that man must cross a very, very narrow bridge,

and the rule, and the most important thing

is not to be afraid at all.

Likutey Moharan, Last Edition, Mark 48

Man is but a guest,

And the Creator is the Host

It is known that our sages said,

“Anything that the landlord tells you,  do,”

For so is the custom,

“except for ‘Leave!

This is so because when one leaves the domain of the landlord,

He is no longer his host, so as to listen to His voice.

 RABASH, Article No. 118, “Except for ‘Leave!’

It is like a king who wished to select for himself t

he most loyal of his subjects in the country a

nd bring them to work inside his palace.

What did he do?

He issued a decree that anyone who wished, young or old,

could come to his palace to engage in the works inside his palace.

However,

he appointed many of his servants to guard the palace gate and all the roads leading to it,

and ordered them to cunningly deflect all those nearing his palace

and divert them from the way that leads to the palace.

Naturally,

All the people in the country began to run to the king’s palace.

But the diligent guards cunningly rejected them.

Many of them overpowered them and came near the palace gate,

but the guards at the gate were the most diligent, and if someone approached the gate,

they diverted him and turned him away with great craftiness

until one despaired and returned as he had come.

And so they came and went,

and regained strength, and came and went again,

and so forth for several days and years

until they grew weary of trying.

Only the mighty ones among them,

whose patience endured,

defeated the guards and opened the gate.

And they were instantly awarded,

seeing the king’s face,

who appointed each of them in his right place.

Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot”, Item 133

Then he comes to the decision

that no one can help him

But the Creator Himself.

This causes him to make a heartfelt demand

that the Creator will open his eyes and heart,

and truly bring him nearer to eternal adhesion with God.

It thus follows that all the rejections he had experienced

had come from 

the Creator.

This means that it was not

because he was at fault

that he did not have the ability to overcome.

Rather,

For those people who truly want to

draw near the Creator,

And so they will not settle for little,

 meaning

remain as senseless children,

He is therefore given help from above,

So he will not

be able to say

Thank God, 

I have Torah and Mitzvot and good deeds,

And what else do I need?

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