Question: How can you combine exerting effort and working in joy?

Answer: Why can’t there be joy when you make an effort?

Question: It seems that effort is a feeling of some kind of lack, an evil inclination, and you need to work on it.

Answer: You should ask to feel joy too.

Question: So joy should not precede effort?

Answer: As you ask, so it will be.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/24/24, Writings of Rabash “The Creator Observed Their Works”

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