{"id":12712,"date":"2025-12-18T21:52:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&p=12712"},"modified":"2025-12-18T21:52:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:52:38","slug":"what-is-he-swallowed-maror-bitter-herb-he-will-not-come-out-in-the-work","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/what-is-he-swallowed-maror-bitter-herb-he-will-not-come-out-in-the-work\/","title":{"rendered":"524. What Is, He Swallowed\u00a0Maror\u00a0[bitter herb], He Will Not Come Out, in the work?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The meaning of Maror<\/em> [bitter herb] is as it is written, \u201cAnd they made their lives bitter with hard work,\u201d by asking \u201cWho?\u201d and \u201cWhat?\u201d These questions caused them labor, for by wanting to overcome, yet not being able to, they tasted a bitter taste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But we should explain their questions within reason, and naturally not feel bitterness in the work. He says that what the evil inclination asks is not questions, so he does not feel bitterness. It follows that he does not have Maror<\/em> in the work, making him have to go above reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now we can understand what our sages said, \u201cIf he swallows\u201d the Maror<\/em> \u201che will not come out.\u201d The ARI says about this that Maror<\/em> has the Gematria<\/em> of Mavet<\/em> [death], which is judgments. We should ask what it implies that Maror<\/em> has the Gematria<\/em> of Mavet<\/em>. The thing is that the Maror<\/em> we eat is a reminder that they made their lives bitter with hard work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We should say that in the work, \u201chard work\u201d means that it is difficult to overcome and emerge from self-benefit, and that he wants to work only for his own benefit. This is called \u201cwicked,\u201d who asks, \u201cWhat is this work\u201d of bestowal \u201cfor you?\u201d What will you gain out of it? But it is known that \u201cThe wicked in their lives are called \u2018dead.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It follows that hard work is called Maror<\/em>, when a person tastes bitterness in having to work for his own sake. This is the intimation that Maror<\/em> has the Gematria<\/em> of Mavet<\/em> and judgments, since there was a judgment on self-benefit that it is forbidden to use this Kli<\/em> [vessel], and this is why there are restrictions and concealment there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now we will explain why we must chew\u2014since we must feel the taste of bitterness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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