{"id":12525,"date":"2025-12-17T14:21:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=12525"},"modified":"2025-12-17T14:21:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:21:31","slug":"the-lord-your-god-was-unwilling-to-listen","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/the-lord-your-god-was-unwilling-to-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"433. The Lord Your God Was Unwilling to Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>October 21, 1971<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Lord your God was unwilling to listen to Balaam, and the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We should understand the wonder of the Creator being unwilling to listen to an unworthy man. Also, what does it mean that He turned the curse into a blessing, if He did not hear Balaam at all?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing is that there are those who slander to find a place of iniquity in Israel. This means that when one wants to walk in the ways of the Creator, the body slanders and seeks iniquities in Israel. Iniquity means a place of deficiency, where he finds that by wanting to be in the quality of Israel, there are many questions, meaning he has tough questions and issues regarding the quality of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this power, it detains a person from walking in the ways of the Creator, meaning from being in the quality of Israel, as it is written, \u201cMy son, My firstborn, Israel.\u201d By the body\u2019s slandering Israel and finding iniquities, meaning faults, it obstructs him and detains him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The verse comes and says about this that He was completely unwilling to listen, for although it came with an argument that cannot be defeated through reasoning, its words are not heard or accepted whatsoever. In other words, one who wants to walk on the path of the Creator\u2014that \u201cthe Lord will be your God,\u201d and not other things\u2014should not listen whatsoever to the complaints and grievances of the body, which come from the intellect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, the meaning of being \u201cunwilling to listen\u201d is that he did not want to reply to it within reason, but rather went above rhyme and reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that time, \u201cThe Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you.\u201d That is, of all the slandering that it slanders through the complaints and grievances, when it overcomes the complaints by going above reason, they cause him to be rewarded with faith above reason. Otherwise, he would walk in the path of the Creator within reason, but the real&nbsp;<em>Kli<\/em>&nbsp;[vessel] to be rewarded with the light of the Creator is specifically above rhyme and reason, and this&nbsp;<em>Kli<\/em>&nbsp;is called a&nbsp;<em>Kli<\/em>&nbsp;of bestowal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conversely, within reason, it is called \u201ca&nbsp;<em>Kli<\/em>&nbsp;of reception,\u201d and on that&nbsp;<em>Kli<\/em>&nbsp;there was the&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum<\/em>&nbsp;[restriction]. It follows that by wanting to be rewarded with \u201cthe Lord will be your God,\u201d and not other gods, he \u201cwas unwilling to listen\u201d whatsoever. 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