{"id":12043,"date":"2025-12-14T16:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=12043"},"modified":"2025-12-14T16:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:44:14","slug":"if-you-do-well","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/if-you-do-well\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Do Well"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>339) \u201cIf you do well, sublimity, and if you do not do well, sin crouches at the door.\u201d The word \u201csublimity\u201d means that you will rise up and will not come down, that you will draw the lights from below upward and will not draw the lights from above downward any more, for by that he killed Abel. But \u201csublimity\u201d also means removal and forgiveness, for the Creator told him, \u201cIf you do well,\u201d the adhesion of the spirit of impurity will be removed from you and you will be forgiven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>340) \u201cAnd if you do not do well, sin crouches at the door.\u201d The door is the upper judgment, the judgment of Malchut, which is the door to everything, as it is written, \u201cOpen for me the gates of justice.\u201d Justice is the name of Malchut. Gates of Justice are the judgments, for one cannot come to Malchut unless he turns these judgments in her to gates, as it is written, \u201cThis is the gate to the Lord, the righteous shall come through it.\u201d That is, those judgments, by which the wicked are moved away, become gates for the righteous and they become attached through them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The words \u201cat the door\u201d mean that sin is crouching on the Malchut, although she is the source of all punishments. 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The Creator said to him, \u201cSin crouches,\u201d meaning that that side to which you clung and which was extended over you will be watching you in order to avenge you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is written, \u201cIf you do well, sublimity,\u201d meaning that the adhesion of the spirit of impurity that clung to him due to his sin will be removed from him. \u201cAnd if you do not do well, sin crouches at the door.\u201d That spirit of impurity that has clung to him due to his sin will itself avenge you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>339) \u201cIf you do well, sublimity, and if you do not do well, sin crouches at the door.\u201d The word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":11820,"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":[28],"class_list":["post-12043","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-zohar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kabbalah | If You Do Well<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;If You Do Well&quot; 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