{"id":12443,"date":"2025-12-16T20:27:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&p=12443"},"modified":"2025-12-16T20:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:27:58","slug":"coercion-and-inversion","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/coercion-and-inversion\/","title":{"rendered":"390. Coercion and Inversion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Shevat<\/em>–Adar<\/em> Aleph<\/em>, February 1981<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRaise a contribution for Me; from every man whose heart is willing, you shall raise My contribution.\u201d RASHI interprets \u201cfor Me,\u201d \u201cfor My name.\u201d \u201cWhose heart is willing,\u201d RASHI interprets, \u201cmeaning donation, good will.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We should understand the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) \u201cTaking\u201d means by force. \u201cHis heart is willing\u201d is good will. This contradicts \u201cwill take.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) Why does it write, \u201cMy contribution\u201d? This implies that it is the contribution of the Creator. It should have said, \u201cTake the contribution of he whose heart is willing\u201d; why does it say, \u201cMy contribution\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3) What does it mean when it says, \u201cfor My name\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4) We need to understand the common question about the verse, \u201cWherever I mention My name.\u201d It should have said, \u201cYou mention.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thing is that there are two degrees: \u201ccoercion\u201d and \u201cinversion.\u201d Such as this we find in what our sages said in Avot de Rabbi Natan<\/em>, \u201cWho is a hero? He who makes his foe his friend.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHero\u201d means one who conquers his inclination, who is regarded as \u201cforced against his will.\u201d This is the meaning of \u201ctake,\u201d implying by force. Afterward, he promises that you will come to an inversion, where his foe becomes his friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the meaning of \u201cfrom every man whose heart is willing,\u201d meaning that afterward he will have a good will. This is as Baal HaSulam said about the words of The Zohar<\/em>, \u201cWhen one is born, he is given a soul from the side of the pure beast.\u201d This means that his beastly soul will agree to follow the ways of the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said, \u201cWhen a man is born and enters Kedusha<\/em> [holiness],\u201d it is a sign that he has been rewarded with a soul of a pure beast, that his beastly soul agrees to walk in the ways of the Creator. This is called \u201cinversion.\u201d It follows that first, one must take against his will although his body disagrees to walk on the path of truth which is called \u201cfor Me,\u201d \u201cfor My name.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we are told to walk on a path where everything is for the sake of the Creator, the body resists. But later it will be rewarded with \u201chis heart is willing,\u201d meaning that the body will agree. This is the meaning of \u201cwhose heart is willing, you shall take My contribution,\u201d meaning that the \u201cfor the sake of the Creator\u201d that was there before, as in \u201cYou shall take My contribution,\u201d called \u201cfor the sake of the Creator,\u201d afterward we are rewarded with it being in the manner of \u201cwhose heart is willing,\u201d voluntarily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concerning his interpretation of \u201cfor Me\u201d as \u201cfor My name,\u201d indeed, a person has nothing to give to the Creator, as it is written, \u201cIf you are righteous, what will you give Him?\u201d All that one can give to the Creator is the intention, called \u201cfor My name.\u201d There is nothing more that he can give Him because the Creator has no deficiencies so He can be given something. Thus, all that we give Him is the intention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even the intention for the sake of the Creator is not for the Creator\u2019s benefit but for man\u2019s benefit, for by this, man will receive all the pleasures without the bread of shame, since through equivalence of form, he emerges from receiving to a state of giving. At that time, a person can receive all the pleasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is called \u201cfor My name.\u201d If the Creator can say that this place is \u201cMy name,\u201d since the person said that he does not want anything for his own benefit, but everything is for the Creator, then the Creator can mention His name there, since the man has cancelled his own authority and made the place for the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At that time, \u201cI will come to you and bless you.\u201d At that time, the blessing of the Creator can come there\u2014all that the Creator wants to bestow upon His creations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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