July 14, 1927, London<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To the honorable … may his candle burn:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
… Our sages have already said, \u201cThe fear of your teacher is as the fear of heaven.\u201d This, therefore, will be the measure of exaltedness that such a man obtains by his sanctity, for his exaltedness will by no means exceed the exaltedness of his teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What the Rijnaar boasted about\u2014that he was awarded a higher degree than all the sages in his generation because he acquired more faith in the sages than all of his contemporaries\u2014we need to understand that faith does not come by lending. Such faith can be acquired by six-year-old children, too, but as a feeling of the exaltedness and the inspiration to his soul from the wisdom of the sages who have shared from His wisdom to those who fear Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have already said and elaborated that the biggest Masach<\/em> [screen] is in the work in the children of the land of Israel, since the domination of the Canaan Klipa<\/em> [shell\/peel] is in this place, and each one is as low as the ground, his friend is even lower than the ground, and his rav [teacher] is like him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Allegorically, you can say the words of our sages about the verse, \u201cLeave Me and keep My law\u201d\u2014\u201cI wish they would leave Me\u201d means that they were proud of the exaltedness. And although \u201che and I cannot dwell in the same place,\u201d still, \u201cKeep My law,\u201d be attached to a genuine righteous with proper faith in the sages. Then there is hope that the righteous will reform them and will sentence them to the side of merit as is appropriate for the presence of the Creator. What could come out of their humbleness and lowliness so the Creator does not move His abode from them, if they have no genuine righteous [person] to guide them in His law and prayer, and lead them to a place of Torah and wisdom?<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is already known that it is forbidden to marry one\u2019s daughter to an uneducated man. By this they gradually dry out like dry bones, God forbid. And what can you do for them if not repeat such words from time to time until the living one will pay attention?<\/p>\n\n\n\n … It is written, \u201cAnd Moses will take the tent,\u201d etc. Why did he pitch his tent outside the camp? The fools believe that he did it to stop the flow of Hochma<\/em>due to the sin. This is unthinkable, since after the sin they need the fountains of Torah and Hochma<\/em> thousands of times more than before, as our sages said, \u201cHad Israel not sinned, they would have been given only the Five Books of Moses<\/em> and the book of Joshua.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, it is to the contrary. It is a true remedy for opening the fountains of wisdom to a faithful source, since once Moses had pitched his tent outside the camp, the craving for him inside the camp increased, as \u201cOne who has bread in his basket is not like one who,\u201d etc., and along with it the adhesion with Him. Thus, they were rewarded with expansion of Moses\u2019 soul among them, for which they were called \u201cthe generation of knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have already said and reminded you the words of teaching that I said on the festival of Shavuot<\/em> [Feast of Weeks] prior to my departure from you about the verse, \u201cRun My beloved, and be like a gazelle\u201d: \u201cAs the gazelle turns its face back when it runs,\u201d etc., for having no other way to make a Panim<\/em>[face\/anterior], they devise this tactic\u2014bringing the Panim<\/em> to the Achoraim<\/em>[back\/posterior]. It is as it is written, \u201cSo is the Creator when,\u201d etc., \u201cHe turns His face back,\u201d since the sensation of separation and Achoraim<\/em>, and the inability to receive the Panim<\/em> of Kedusha<\/em> [holiness] increase the sparks of craving tremendously, until the Achoraim<\/em> become Panim<\/em>, since the tablets were written on both sides. You should be noticing these things by now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yehuda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 14, 1927, London To the honorable … may his candle burn: … Our sages have already said, \u201cThe fear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":6225,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"topic":[25],"class_list":["post-10126","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-baal-hasulam"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n