{"id":12722,"date":"2025-12-18T22:10:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=12722"},"modified":"2025-12-18T22:10:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:10:29","slug":"the-main-choice","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/the-main-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"532. The Main Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The main choice concerns the reason that obligates a person to engage in Torah and&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>&nbsp;[commandments]. A person must observe all 613&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>, or he will be punished in this world, since when the Temple existed, there was the conduct of \u201cfour deaths of the courthouse,\u201d and the commandments to do were imposed. But concerning the reason that obligates a person to observe the Torah and&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>, here there is choice, for there cannot be coercion about this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As it is written in&nbsp;<em>The Zohar<\/em>, there are three reasons: 1) reward and punishment in this world, 2) reward and punishment in the next world, 3) bestowing upon the Creator. That is, since he cannot bestow upon the Creator and observe \u201cAs He is merciful, so you are merciful,\u201d he engages in Torah and&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>&nbsp;as a&nbsp;<em>Segula<\/em>&nbsp;[cure\/power] that will bring him to have a desire and yearning to bestow upon the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the meaning of spirituality being above place and time, meaning when we tell the body to observe Torah and&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>&nbsp;because of spirituality, meaning to bestow upon the Creator, these words have no place within the body; it does not understand them because the body asks what it will get out of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If it is asked, \u201cWill you be able to observe tomorrow because of spirituality?\u201d it answers \u201cNot today, not tomorrow, and not ever!\u201d since there is no room in it where it is possible to engage in spirituality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is called \u201cspirituality is above place,\u201d meaning that a person must pray to the Creator to help him come to be able to engage with a desire in order to bestow although there is no place or time from the perspective of the human mind that he will ever be able to work in order to bestow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, if a person comes to realize that this is the path of truth, he focuses all his work on this point, that the Creator will help him come to be able to take upon himself the true line required of the created beings: the aim to bestow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main choice concerns the reason that obligates a person to engage in Torah and&nbsp;Mitzvot&nbsp;[commandments]. 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