{"id":11668,"date":"2025-12-11T18:48:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T18:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&p=11668"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T10:18:25","slug":"a-person-builds-a-building","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/a-person-builds-a-building\/","title":{"rendered":"285. A Person Builds a Building"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Adar<\/em>, 1962<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

In this world, a person builds a building and another ruins it. But in the future, he will not build and another will dwell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This world is called Lo<\/em> Lishma<\/em> [not for Her sake], and the future is called Lishma<\/em> [for Her sake], since from Lo<\/em> Lishma<\/em>, we come to Lishma<\/em>. The place of the present, which is in Lo<\/em> Lishma<\/em>, is called \u201cthis world,\u201d where one is now. \u201cIn the future\u201d means later, when he comes to Lishma<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A building means that a person engages in Torah for the sake of others, not for the sake of the Creator. It is considered that he builds a building (as in \u201cDo not pronounce it Baneicha<\/em> [your sons], but Boneycha<\/em> [those who build you]) but for others, since his aim is not for his own benefit, meaning that with the Torah and Mitzvot<\/em> [commandments], he thereby brings contentment to the Creator, for by this he himself will approach the Creator and the words, \u201cThe Creator yearned to dwell in the lower ones\u201d will come true in him. Instead, he works for others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in the future, when he engages Lishma<\/em>, he will build for himself so that he himself will benefit from his work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We should also interpret \u201cthis world.\u201d When one engages in Torah and Mitzvot<\/em> for his own sake, when the aim is to receive, he cannot benefit from the building he is building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An hour of Torah and an hour of prayer is similar to a brick over a brick. By this, a large building is made, according to the value of one\u2019s work in Torah and Mitzvot<\/em>. Those Kelim<\/em> [vessels] that can be filled with the concealed light, as in \u201cIn every place where I mention My name,\u201d as in \u201cuntil He who knows the mysteries will testify that he will not return to folly,\u201d at that time, \u201cI will come to you and bless you,\u201d and in all the Kelim<\/em> that a person has prepared, there will be the blessing of the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is called \u201cthe building of the Temple,\u201d but this is only if his work is for the sake of the Creator. At that time, a person can benefit from the blessing of the Creator. It follows that he dwells in the building he had built. Yet, this is only for the next world. One who works for the spirituality of Lishma<\/em>, as this world is called \u201cpresent,\u201d the place where one is now, this is as in \u201cone should always learn Torah and Mitzvot<\/em> Lo<\/em> Lishma<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afterward is called \u201cfuture,\u201d meaning a world that approaches and comes, as it is written in The Zohar<\/em>, and which the sages call \u201ccoming to Lishma<\/em>.\u201d At that time, they will not build but engage in Torah and Mitzvot<\/em>, and then sit, but he himself, for because his aim is Lishma<\/em>, the secrets of Torah are revealed to him and he becomes as a flowing stream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in Lo<\/em> Lishma<\/em>, what our sages said can be said about him: \u201cOne comes out to the light,\u201d meaning that he has the privilege that through him, one will come out to the light. It follows that he exerts in Torah and Mitzvot<\/em> and others benefit from this\u2014those who come out to the light. This is the meaning of \u201cIf he is rewarded, he takes his share and his friend\u2019s share in the Garden of Eden.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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