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"We need to understand that we experience suffering in our world only because it pushes us toward the real pleasure."

We Don’t Entice With Sweets

Posted on October 20th, 2010 at 12:41 pm

Question: Do we need the screen that would enable us to rid ourselves of all the pleasures prepared by the Creator?
Answer: No. The purpose of creation is to reach the good and enjoy. However, we need to delight in the unlimited pleasures that do not exist in our world. We remain “animals” in this thin layer of reality, but our task is to rise to the human level, where the infinite pleasure originates. And then, after having opened the bestowing Kli, we will enjoy without boundaries.
Suffering is not man’s purpose. We need to understand that we experience suffering in our world only because it pushes us toward the real pleasure. Rabash gives an example of a father who arranges the firing of his son from a factory so he would not stay there for the rest of his life and would move on.
When we encounter unpleasant things, we do not feel that we are being educated in this way like little children. But there is no other path. You cannot always be enticed with sweets because they will become your only goal. Yet without the sweets, you become wiser, you begin to evaluate the situation, and learn to manage it.
Thanks to the environment and the method of correction you begin to always understand what is happening to you, you agree with the “education program,” and go through all of its steps with your own will.

From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/12/10, “The Matter of Mercy”