Shaping the Will to Receive: Kabbalah, Study as a Furnace - Mishkan Hakavana

Описание: Kabbalistic study as direct work on the will to receive for oneself. To “come to study” is not an intellectual preference or a solitary activity, but a concrete act of bringing the corporeal body—together with its desires, habits, and egoic drives—into a shared space. The group functions as a furnace in which the will to receive is placed under conditions of attention, coordination, and common intention, allowing it to shift from emotional reactivity toward the possibility of sensing a different reality.

A central distinction is drawn between mere action and true formation. Doing alone can satisfy the will to receive by creating the feeling that something is happening, but spiritual work is about making—about shaping inner capacity. This is clarified through the Kabbalistic difference between Beriah (creation as pure potential) and Yetzirah (formation, making something out of what already exists). The will to receive provides the raw material, but meaning emerges only when that material is formed, structured, and arranged—like letters that must be combined into words.

Study and prayer are therefore acts of transformation rather than problem-solving. By sitting oneself within the conditions of study, impressions are engraved into the will to receive as letters. These letters later allow meaning, stories, and understanding to be formed—both personally and across generations. In Kabbalistic terms, the work is to allow the will to receive to become a vessel capable of formation, so that creation can move from potential into lived, meaningful reality.

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