Kabbalah Library

There is the power of faith that our forefathers extended, that through faith we can draw the upper pleasures, and then the body, too, enjoys them.

“The secret of the Lord is to those who fear Him.” Before the time of the Messiah, only those who had complete fear of the Creator were rewarded with the secret, meaning the upper pleasure that not just anyone could hear and feel, and which is called “a secret.”

But at the time of the Messiah, which is the time near the end of correction, it will not be a secret. Rather, “They shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.” Hence, now, when it is near that time, one who engages in Torah and Mitzvot [commandments] can already draw and feel the sublime pleasures that were thus far concealed.

Hence, with each and every Mitzva [commandment], we must aim to draw upper vitality and pleasure until the body, too, enjoys it. Afterward begins the work of the righteous in the manner of in order to bestow and not receive for oneself.