Kabbalistic Insights
by Thiago Moshe
The half of the hundred
that almost nobody does
In the Ekev lecture, Michael Berg says that half of the hundred daily moments are for what you do not yet have. This page is that half, turned into practice.
Asking assumes the thing does not yet exist and that you must convince someone to create it. The Essence of the Creator is to give, so what you lack has already been set aside and is already prepared. What does not yet exist is the passage, and the passage opens through appreciation. That is why it comes before, not after.
I do not have it yet. I will give thanks when it comes, if it comes. For now, all I can do is ask again.
It is ready and waiting for you. Appreciate now, and that is precisely what opens the passage it will come through.
If it took another year to arrive, would you go on appreciating?
It is not the thing arriving. It is the anguish around the lack loosening before it arrives. When you can think about it without tightening, the passage has opened.
That is why Michael Berg speaks of a switch and not of a reward. What changes first is consciousness, and the manifestation follows.
Appreciating as a technique to force delivery is still the desire to receive for oneself alone. Appreciation becomes a bargain, and the passage closes again.
Source: Michael Berg, Shabbat Ekev, 16 August 2025, The Kabbalah Centre, Los Angeles, from the part of the lecture devoted to the Sefer HaChinuch. Practice assembled by Thiago Moshe · Kabbalistic Insights.
The seven steps are an applied synthesis, not a list given by the teacher. The three-part certainty, appreciation before the blessing and the regret of the departing come from the lecture. The order and the format are ours.