{"id":12383,"date":"2025-12-16T16:27:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=12383"},"modified":"2025-12-16T16:27:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:27:51","slug":"concerning-the-revealed-and-the-concealed","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/concerning-the-revealed-and-the-concealed\/","title":{"rendered":"65. Concerning the Revealed and the Concealed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I heard on&nbsp;<em>Tevet<\/em>&nbsp;29, January 18, 1942, Jerusalem<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is written, \u201cThe hidden things belong to the Lord our God, and the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, to do all the words of this law.\u201d We should ask, \u201cWhat does the text come to tell us, that the hidden things belong to the Lord?\u201d We should not say that concealed means unattainable and revealed means attainable. We can see that there are people with knowledge in the concealed part, as there are people who have no knowledge in the revealed part, but it cannot be said that this means that there are more people with knowledge in the revealed part than in the concealed part. (If so, you have given only a part of the whole picture.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing is that in this world, we see that there are actions that are revealed as actions to our eyes. This means that man\u2019s hand is involved there, and there are actions where we see that an act is done, but man cannot do anything there. Rather, a hidden force operates there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is as our sages said, \u201cThere are three partners in man\u2014the Creator, his father, and his mother.\u201d The revealed part is the commandment to be fruitful and multiply. This act is done by the parents. If the parents do their thing properly, the Creator puts a soul in the newborn. That is, his parents do the revealed part, as they can only do the revealed part, but the hidden part\u2014placing the soul in the newborn\u2014here the parents cannot do a thing; only the Creator Himself does that thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, with the&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>&nbsp;[commandments], we must do only the revealed part, as only here can we act, that is, engage in Torah and&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>&nbsp;by way of \u201cdoers of His word.\u201d However, the hidden part, the soul in observing Torah and&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>, one cannot do a thing there. When we observe Torah and&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>&nbsp;in action, called \u201cdoing,\u201d we should pray to the Creator that He will do the concealed part, meaning place a soul in our practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The practice is called \u201ca candle of a&nbsp;<em>Mitzva<\/em>,\u201d which are only candles, which must be lit by the \u201cand the Torah is light.\u201d The light of Torah lights the&nbsp;<em>Mitzva<\/em>and gives the soul vitality in the practice, as with the newborn, where there are three partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the meaning of \u201cThe things that are revealed belong to us,\u201d meaning that we must work in the form of \u201cAll that your hand and strength can do, do.\u201d It is only here that we can act, but obtaining the soul and vitality depends on the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the meaning of \u201cThe hidden things belong to the Lord our God.\u201d The Creator promises us that if we do the part that is revealed to us, acting on the conditions of the Torah and&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>&nbsp;in the practical part, the Creator will put a soul in our actions. However, before we are awarded the concealed, called \u201ca soul,\u201d our revealed part is like a body without a soul. Thus, we must be awarded the hidden part, and this is only in the hands of the Creator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard on&nbsp;Tevet&nbsp;29, January 18, 1942, Jerusalem It is written, \u201cThe hidden things belong to the Lord our God, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":6231,"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":[25],"class_list":["post-12383","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-baal-hasulam"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kabbalah | 65. 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