{"id":11883,"date":"2025-12-13T10:24:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T10:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=11883"},"modified":"2026-01-25T16:30:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:30:02","slug":"what-are-three-things-that-broaden-ones-mind-in-the-work-7","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/what-are-three-things-that-broaden-ones-mind-in-the-work-7\/","title":{"rendered":"9. What Are Three Things that Broaden One\u2019s Mind in the Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I heard on&nbsp;<em>Elul<\/em>, August 1942<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Zohar<\/em>&nbsp;interprets what our sages wrote: \u201cThree things broaden one\u2019s mind. These are a handsome woman, a handsome abode, and handsome&nbsp;<em>Kelim<\/em>[vessels].\u201d It says, \u201cA sightly woman is the&nbsp;<em>Shechina<\/em>&nbsp;[Divinity]. A sightly abode is his heart, and sightly&nbsp;<em>Kelim<\/em>&nbsp;are his organs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We must explain that the&nbsp;<em>Shechina<\/em>&nbsp;cannot appear in its true form, which is a state of grace and beauty, except when one has sightly&nbsp;<em>Kelim<\/em>, which are the organs extending from the heart. This means that one must first purify his heart to be a sightly abode by annulling the will to receive for himself and accustoming himself to work so all his actions will be only in order to bestow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From this extend sightly&nbsp;<em>Kelim<\/em>, meaning his desires, called&nbsp;<em>Kelim<\/em>, will be clean from reception for himself. Rather, they will be pure, called \u201cbestowal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, if the abode is not sightly, the Creator says, \u201che and I cannot dwell in the same abode.\u201d This is because there must be equivalence of form between the light and the&nbsp;<em>Kli<\/em>&nbsp;[vessel]. Therefore, when one takes upon himself faith in purity, in mind or in heart, he is imparted with a sightly woman, meaning that the&nbsp;<em>Shechina<\/em>&nbsp;appears to him in a form of grace and beauty, which broadens his mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, through the pleasure and gladness he feels at that time, the&nbsp;<em>Shechina<\/em>&nbsp;appears within the organs, filling the outer and inner&nbsp;<em>Kelim<\/em>. This is called \u201cbroadening the mind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is obtained through envy, lust, and honor, which bring a person out of the world. Envy means through envy in the&nbsp;<em>Shechina<\/em>, regarded as being jealous in \u201cjealously for the Lord of hosts.\u201d Honor means that he wants to increase the glory of heaven. 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