{"id":11142,"date":"2025-12-09T14:04:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=11142"},"modified":"2026-01-25T18:47:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T18:47:46","slug":"against-your-will-1","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/against-your-will-1\/","title":{"rendered":"3. Against Your Will \u2013 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cAgainst your will you are born; against your will you live; and against your will you die.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Birth is as the verse, \u201cA proselyte who converted is as a newly born child.\u201d That is, each time we reacquire the quality of faith, it is considered a \u201cnew birth.\u201d And the reception of the quality of \u201cmind\u201d is above reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the body cannot do anything that is against reason, he must accept the quality of \u201cmind\u201d against its will, meaning the body disagrees. But if one\u2019s work is in a manner of reception and knowledge, the body will obey any order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the meaning of \u201cAgainst your will you are born,\u201d that birth in&nbsp;<em>Kedusha<\/em>&nbsp;[holiness] is only against one\u2019s will, until one is rewarded with \u201cwill bring it near [also sacrifice] to His will,\u201d as our sages said, \u201cHe is forced until he says, \u2018I want\u2019\u201d (<em>Kidushin<\/em>&nbsp;50a).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By accepting faith, we are rewarded with a life of&nbsp;<em>Kedusha<\/em>&nbsp;through Torah and work, and the vitality he receives must also be against his will. That is, he does not want to receive the pleasure, but because the Creator wants to delight him, he must receive, and not because of his own desire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd against your will you die\u201d when you engage in corporeal matters, as these actions are only self-reception, called \u201cdeath.\u201d It should be \u201cagainst his will,\u201d meaning that he would enjoy more if he did not have to do all the corporeal things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is as Baal HaSulam said, this is like a person who suffers from boils [disease] and scratches. Although it gives him pleasure, he would be happier if he did not have boils and would not have to scratch and enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAgainst your will you are born; against your will you live; and against your will you die.\u201d Birth is as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":6246,"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":[26],"class_list":["post-11142","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-rabash"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kabbalah | 3. 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