{"id":11458,"date":"2025-12-10T19:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=11458"},"modified":"2026-01-26T08:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T08:58:09","slug":"torah-acquired-suffering","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/torah-acquired-suffering\/","title":{"rendered":"203. The Torah Is Acquired through Suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Why these suffering? There is a rule, \u201cThere is no light without a&nbsp;<em>Kli<\/em>&nbsp;[vessel].\u201d That is, there is no pleasure without a prior need for the pleasure, and the need is called \u201csuffering,\u201d when one aches at not having pleasure. For this reason, we cannot obtain the light of Torah without a need for the light of Torah, meaning without suffering at not having the light of Torah. 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