{"id":12743,"date":"2025-12-18T22:56:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=12743"},"modified":"2025-12-18T22:56:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:56:20","slug":"doing-and-hearing","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/doing-and-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"548. Doing and Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cSpeech\u201d is regarded as action, and \u201chearing\u201d means I hear, meaning think, which is something that is acceptable to the heart. This is as it is written, \u201cAnd you shall give to Your servant a heart that hears.\u201d This is the meaning of \u201cWe will do and we will hear,\u201d that it is impossible that hearing will be revealed before a person reveals the action, which is the choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, when the hearing is revealed, there is no place for choice. For this reason, the hearing is concealed and when one must engage in Torah and&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>&nbsp;[commandments] only in action and not in hearing, there is labor because the heart does not understand if it is worthwhile to engage in Torah and&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>, and all its actions are only by accepting the burden, as it is written in the prayer before wearing the&nbsp;<em>Tefillin<\/em>&nbsp;[phylacteries], which is next to the heart, to thereby enslave the lusts and thoughts of our hearts to His work. In the action, there can be enslavement, but in hearing, there is no place for enslavement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is as our sages said, \u201cHe who comes to purify is aided.\u201d It was interpreted in&nbsp;<em>The Zohar<\/em>&nbsp;that he is given a holy soul, which is regarded as hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It therefore follows that the whole concealment of the hearing is only in order to have room for the revelation of the power of choice. This is the meaning of the words that hearing depends on the speech, meaning on the action. This is the meaning of \u201cBy the word of the Lord, the heavens were made.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, when a person engages in the word of the Creator, which is Torah, his intention should be toward acting, that he will be rewarded with acting for the sake of the Creator meaning that his actions will be for the sake of the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is upon this that the hearing in the sense of acting is revealed, namely that all his actions that are for the sake of the Creator, in them the hearing is revealed. 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