{"id":11526,"date":"2025-12-10T22:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T22:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=11526"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:17:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:17:25","slug":"seek-peace-and-pursue-it","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/seek-peace-and-pursue-it\/","title":{"rendered":"219. Seek Peace and Pursue It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the verse, \u201cTurn away from evil and do good, seek peace and pursue it\u201d (Psalms 34).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two forces in the world that give man the motivating force that will compel him to revoke his rest force. That is, the force of rest, which is in the qualities of the soul, yields to two other forces, meaning become revoked, and by this the soul takes upon itself the force of movement: 1) the rejecting force, 2) the attracting force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rejecting force is from something bad and loathsome that compels one to run away. The attracting force is good and nice things that one is compelled to chase. However, a single force, whether attracting or rejecting, is insufficient to revoke the force of rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTurn away from evil\u201d is called the \u201crejecting force,\u201d if a person feels that it is bad. \u201cDo good\u201d is called the \u201cattracting force\u201d if a person feels that this is good and he must chase it and obtain it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSeek peace and pursue it.\u201d The question is, What is the war that one must try to make peace, and even pursue it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The war is the war of life, where each one is fighting with the other and by this acquires what he wants. For example, the merchant is fighting with the buyer and wants to defeat him in order to get what he wants, meaning money for no merchandise, or the worst possible merchandise. It is likewise to the contrary\u2014the buyer with the seller\u2014the least money for the best commodity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The employee with the employer\u2014the employer wants more output and more hours for a lower salary, and the employee is to the contrary, a higher salary and more rest. In other words, in the quantity of time and quality of output, we should understand who causes this whole war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But first, we must understand what man is and how one is measured as great or small. It is said that a person has a big heart, is heavy-handed, and narrow-minded, meaning that it cannot be said that a person is the flesh and bones. Thus, what is man?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We should discern three qualities of desire: big, small, and nothing-to-it. The power of desire is measured by the suffering. A big desire means that if one does not get what he wants he will suffer terribly. A small desire means that if one does not get what he wants he will suffer very little. A nothing-to-it desire means that if he does not get what he wants he will still not suffer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From where does the will to receive stem? From the thought of creation to do good to His creations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We believe that \u201cThe whole earth is full of His glory,\u201d \u201cFor it is not a vain thing for you, for it is your life and the length of your days,\u201d \u201cFor they are our lives and the length of our days.\u201d Moses said all this, and the sages of Israel who established the prayers said this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what do we say and feel? We want to derive vitality and pleasure from other things, and the Torah takes away from us many pleasures that we could obtain if the Torah permitted us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the verse, \u201cTurn away from evil and do good, seek peace and pursue it\u201d (Psalms 34). 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