{"id":12737,"date":"2025-12-18T22:44:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=12737"},"modified":"2025-12-18T22:44:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:44:37","slug":"return-o-israel-2","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/return-o-israel-2\/","title":{"rendered":"542. Return, O Israel \u2013 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cReturn, O Israel, to the Lord your God.\u201d That is, do not engage in Torah and&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>&nbsp;[commandments] because others tell you that you must engage in Torah and&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>. Rather, one should come to a degree where he feels the existence of the Creator, that \u201cThe whole earth is full of His glory,\u201d since one who sits at home is unlike one who sits before the King. This is called \u201cyour God.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor you have failed in your iniquity.\u201d Do not say that the first generations were better than these, and the iniquities caused us not to be able to feel it. It is written about this, \u201cFor you have failed in your iniquity,\u201d meaning in your personal inequities. 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