December 3, 1931<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To … may his candle burn:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I received your letter today and I understood it. And yet, I believe that you should also know my view regarding your words, although in my estimate, you still do not perceive them. For this reason, the words will not delight you, nor will they be pleasant in your eyes, and for that, the truth will show its way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many say, \u201cWho will show me good?\u201d And yet, very few find it. We should therefore understand where is that great and relentless obstacle that mercilessly fails so many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have already pointed out to you several times the famous law in the holy books, that nothing is given unless by merit, meaning through labor, which everyone calls \u201cawakening from below.\u201d Without it, no bestowal from above, called \u201cawakening from above,\u201d will ever happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These words and laws are known to all, but their extent is not known, or they do not want to know it. For this reason, there is a big edifice of the Sitra<\/em> Achra<\/em>[other side], which stands and makes allowances in the matter\u2014that it is not necessary to exert beyond human capability. In dire times, one has an entire lore from authors and books showing the kindness and mercy of His guidance with a person who is not so meticulous. He has a thousand pre-prepared proofs for it, instantaneously, as it is written, \u201cThe Creator does not criticize His creations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our sages said about the such, that the Torah is called SAM<\/em>, for if he is not rewarded, the Torah itself becomes to him a potion [SAM<\/em>] of death, for they are learning Torah from wicked SAM<\/em>, and from him they understand. His words of Torah are immediately accepted by the heart, and are always kept in the memory, for they contemplated them day and night, God save us from him and from his followers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What shall we do for those, and how can we reach out to them, or slightly move them from their places when they are not at all ready for an awakening from below? I wish to say that even if we succeed, with the Creator\u2019s help, to draw upon them the greatest awakening of the body, to crave and covet Him, they will still not want, or will not be able to\u2014with that power of theirs\u2014to give the measure of awakening from below that is needed for an awakening from above. This is something about which the Creator has never made allowances, since days of old until this day and always, for \u201cHe has given an unbreakable law.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is said about it, \u201cIn full measure, when You send her away, You contend with her.\u201d The Creator measures a person one portion at a time. It is also written, \u201cFor the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full,\u201d referring also to our topic. The iniquity of the Amorite is the Klipa<\/em> [shell\/peel] that keeps and surrounds the fruit, called \u201cawakening from above,\u201d or \u201cthe land of Israel.\u201d That Klipa<\/em> will not move from its place even as a hairsbreadth before Israel complement entirely the necessary measure of awakening from below, called \u201cmerit,\u201d meaning the labor and exertion beyond human capability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anything that one can do is merely called \u201cwork\u201d; it is still not considered \u201clabor.\u201d When Israel reach that point, they complement their amount, and then it is called \u201cThe iniquity of the Amorite is full.\u201d In other words, it is evident that the land of Israel and the glory of the Creator, being the Shechina<\/em> [Divinity], do not belong to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then they break that Klipa<\/em> called \u201cAmorite,\u201d and raise the Shechina<\/em> from the dust, and not a moment sooner, as in the verse. This is the meaning of the explicit number, four hundred years, which shows the great precision in that matter, that there are no concessions here at all. As our sages said, the matter of skipping over the end, which was mandatory and obligatory for Israel, that skipping caused all the exiles to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is also known that the general and particular are equal. That is, in each one from Israel, concerning his soul, there is the matter of coming to the land, and all that is said concerning the whole of Israel, and that in his awakening from below there is that same number, 400 years, which is 400 of death, and 400 of life. Our sages said that the meaning of 400 years of enslavement refers to the place in which he is permitted to pay back the measure of his labor precisely, for in that there are no concessions even as a hairsbreadth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is why our sages said, \u201cI did not labor and found, do not believe,\u201d and also, \u201cThe Torah exists only in one who puts himself to death over it,\u201d as well as \u201cHe who wishes to live shall put himself to death,\u201d and many others likewise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In contrast, they said, \u201cI labored and did not find? Do not believe,\u201d for they knew that that wicked SAM<\/em>, whose lore is in his hand to show that it is possible to find the Creator\u2019s salvation without labor beyond human capability, by which one is made to release one\u2019s grip on the awakening from below and is repelled each day into a great abyss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Afterward, when he returns and recognizes his falsehood and finds his faith in the words of our sages\u2014that the lack of labor and awakening from below had lowered him to the netherworld, he therefore wishes to strengthen himself and dedicate himself to serving the Creator\u2014he promptly returns to him with new heresy, that labor, too, does not help at all because He, God forbid, does not hear the prayer of every mouth. That is, he has pre-prepared proofs to show that there are those who exert but do not find at all. This is why they warned, \u201cI labored and did not find, do not believe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thus, I have shown you the web in which the robbed souls that have no comfort are judged, meaning that mistake in interpreting the word, \u201clabor.\u201d However, truthful is the verse, \u201cThey who seek Me shall find Me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n I still see much evil in the world, where those caught in the web of the Sitra Achra<\/em> labor needlessly, which is only a depiction of punishment. That is, it does not join the count of 400 years whatsoever, and for this my heart aches more than anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n About the such, a person should brace himself with prayer, \u201cMay He grant, etc., that we will not labor in vain,\u201d for it requires great success in that matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You should also know that the labor and exertion that appear in one\u2019s heart during the prayer is the most reliable and most guaranteed to reach its goal than any other matter in reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yehuda Leib<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 3, 1931 To … may his candle burn: I received your letter today and I understood it. 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