{"id":11523,"date":"2025-12-10T22:37:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T22:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=11523"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:15:08","slug":"concerning-women","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/concerning-women\/","title":{"rendered":"216. Concerning Women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"concerning-women\">\u201cWomen, how do they become worthy? \u2026 by watching over the men\u201d (<em>Berachot<\/em>\u00a017a).<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWomen\u201d is the will to receive, which is regarded as&nbsp;<em>Lo<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Lishma<\/em>&nbsp;[not for Her sake]. What merit does one have if he is working&nbsp;<em>Lo<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Lishma<\/em>? The thing is, as our sages said, \u201cA thousand walk into a room and one comes out to the light.\u201d In order for the one to come out to the light, meaning&nbsp;<em>Lishma<\/em>, a thousand&nbsp;<em>Lo<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Lishma<\/em>&nbsp;must assist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It follows that women, those who are&nbsp;<em>Lo<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Lishma<\/em>, because they watch over the men, and a man means bestowing, it follows that they have a part in what they bestowed, in that through him,&nbsp;<em>Lishma<\/em>&nbsp;came forth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWomen, how do they become worthy? \u2026 by watching over the men\u201d (Berachot\u00a017a). \u201cWomen\u201d is the will to receive, which [&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-11523","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 | 216. 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