{"id":11310,"date":"2025-12-10T15:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=11310"},"modified":"2025-12-14T22:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T22:19:15","slug":"a-near-road-and-a-faraway-road","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/a-near-road-and-a-faraway-road\/","title":{"rendered":"138. A Near Road and a Faraway Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Dvekut<\/em>&nbsp;[adhesion] is called \u201clife,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Kedusha<\/em>&nbsp;[holiness]. \u201cSeparation,\u201d meaning self-reception, is called \u201cdeath,\u201d separation from the Life of Lives. Also, separation from the&nbsp;<em>Kedusha<\/em>&nbsp;is regarded as&nbsp;<em>Tuma\u2019a<\/em>&nbsp;[impurity].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The question, \u201cWhy are we removed?\u201d concerns one who was impure in his soul. The Creator\u2019s answer was both on one whose soul is impure, as well as on one who was on a faraway road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A road that is near to&nbsp;<em>Kedusha<\/em>&nbsp;is when he walks on the path of bestowal. The \u201cfaraway road\u201d is when he sees that he is walking on the path of reception, which removes him from&nbsp;<em>Kedusha<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cImpure for man\u2019s soul\u201d means that when they come to the recognition of evil, they cry out, \u201cWhy are we removed?\u201d But the general public does not feel that they are impure for the soul of man. Rather, all their passions concern the body, and with respect to the soul, they do not feel that they are deficient of anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, they are pure, since impure and pure are in one\u2019s feeling. A person may be sick, but if he does not feel the illness, he does not go to the doctor to be cured. It follows that in his feeling, he is well although in truth, he is not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It depends with respect to whom it should be true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dvekut&nbsp;[adhesion] is called \u201clife,\u201d&nbsp;Kedusha&nbsp;[holiness]. \u201cSeparation,\u201d meaning self-reception, is called \u201cdeath,\u201d separation from the Life of Lives. 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