{"id":12823,"date":"2025-12-19T21:44:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=12823"},"modified":"2025-12-19T21:44:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:44:25","slug":"atzilut-and-bya","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/atzilut-and-bya\/","title":{"rendered":"79.\u00a0Atzilut\u00a0and\u00a0BYA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I heard on&nbsp;<em>Tammuz<\/em>&nbsp;15,&nbsp;<em>Pinhas<\/em>&nbsp;1, July 18, 1943<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Atzilut<\/em>&nbsp;is considered from the&nbsp;<em>Chazeh<\/em>&nbsp;and above, which is only vessels of bestowal.&nbsp;<em>BYA<\/em>&nbsp;means reception in order to bestow, the ascent of the lower&nbsp;<em>Hey<\/em>to the place of&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because man is immersed in the will to receive in order to receive, he cannot do a thing without having reception for oneself there. This is why our sages said, \u201cFrom&nbsp;<em>Lo Lishma<\/em>&nbsp;[not for Her sake], we come to&nbsp;<em>Lishma<\/em>&nbsp;[for Her sake].\u201d This means that we begin the engagement in Torah and&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>&nbsp;[commandments] in order to \u201cGive us the wealth of this world,\u201d and afterward, \u201cGive us the wealth of the next world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When learning in this way, one should come to learn&nbsp;<em>Lishma<\/em>, for the sake of the Torah, meaning that the Torah will teach him the ways of the Creator. And then he should first make the sweetening of&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, which means that he elevates&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, called \u201cwill to receive,\u201d to&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, which is considered bestowal. That is, that all his work will be only in order to bestow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then it becomes dark for him. He feels that the world has grown dark on him since the body gives strength to work only in the form of reception, and not in the form of bestowal. In that state, he has but one choice: to pray to the Creator to open his eyes so he can work in the manner of bestowal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the meaning of \u201cWho stands for the question?\u201d It refers to&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, called&nbsp;<em>Mi<\/em>&nbsp;[water] and the question comes from the verse, \u201casking about the rains,\u201d meaning prayer. Since they arrive to the state of \u201cwater of&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,\u201d there is room to pray for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard on&nbsp;Tammuz&nbsp;15,&nbsp;Pinhas&nbsp;1, July 18, 1943 Atzilut&nbsp;is considered from the&nbsp;Chazeh&nbsp;and above, which is only vessels of bestowal.&nbsp;BYA&nbsp;means reception in order 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