{"id":12274,"date":"2025-12-15T22:14:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=12274"},"modified":"2025-12-15T22:14:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:14:44","slug":"a-cure-before-the-blow","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/a-cure-before-the-blow\/","title":{"rendered":"338. A Cure before the Blow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Rosh<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Hashanah<\/em>, September 1982<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Creator sends a cure before the blow. We should ask, If there is no blow, how can we speak of a cure?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We should understand that we find with our sages that the Torah is called&nbsp;<em>Tushia<\/em>&nbsp;because it&nbsp;<em>Mateshet<\/em>&nbsp;[exhausts] a person\u2019s strength (Sanhedrin 26b). Our sages said, \u201cIf one\u2019s head aches, let him engage in Torah\u201d (<em>Iruvin<\/em>&nbsp;54a). Baal HaSulam interpreted that first we need Torah, to see that man\u2019s strength is not as it should be, meaning that \u201cone\u2019s head aches\u201d implies that he has foreign thoughts. \u201cHis stomach aches,\u201d meaning that all he wants is to receive into his own stomach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In medicine, one who receives a medicine but is not sick, the medicine harms him. Hence, first he needs to learn Torah, since through the Torah he will see that he is sick, and then he will receive the Torah and will be healed from his illnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It follows that we grasp the Torah in two manners: 1) that he is sick, for which the Torah is called&nbsp;<em>Tushia<\/em>, for it&nbsp;<em>Mateshet<\/em>&nbsp;[exhausts] man\u2019s strength, and all his power and vitality are only from the quality of a beast. In order to correct this, there is Torah in manner number 2) when it heals him from all the illnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By this we should interpret that the Creator sends the cure before the blow, meaning the Torah, which is called \u201ccure,\u201d precedes the blow, for the Torah brings him the recognition of evil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Afterward, when he suffers the blow, meaning the measure of the evil in him, \u201che fixes a bandage from the blow itself,\u201d meaning from the Torah, which makes him see that he is stricken in his qualities. Subsequently, the Torah heals him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It therefore follows that if he has no recognition of evil, how can he be rewarded with the good? This is why we need both discernments in the Torah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosh&nbsp;Hashanah, September 1982 The Creator sends a cure before the blow. 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