{"id":12943,"date":"2025-12-21T01:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&p=12943"},"modified":"2025-12-21T01:24:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:24:00","slug":"a-sage-comes-to-town","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/a-sage-comes-to-town\/","title":{"rendered":"126. A Sage Comes to Town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I heard during the Shavuot meal<\/em>, May 1947, Tel-Aviv<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA sage comes to town.\u201d The Creator is called \u201cSage\u201d [or \u201cwise\u201d]. He comes to town, since on Shavuot<\/em> [Feast of Weeks] He shows Himself to the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe sluggard says: \u2018There is a lion on the way\u2019; perhaps the sage is not at his home? Perhaps the door is locked?\u201d Our sages said that the thing is, \u201cIf you labored and did not find, do not believe.\u201d Hence, if he sees that he has not found the nearness of the Creator, then he is told that he must have not labored sufficiently. This is why the verse calls him \u201csluggard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what is the reason that he did not labor? If he is seeking the nearness of the Creator, why does he not want to make an effort? After all, even if you want to obtain a corporeal thing, you still cannot obtain it without labor. In truth, he does want to labor, and it is not that he says, \u201cThere is a lion on the way,\u201d meaning the Sitra<\/em> Achra<\/em> [other side], as it is written, \u201cA lion lurks in secret places.\u201d This means that one who begins the path of the Creator encounters the lion on the way. And those who fail in it cannot recover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is why he is afraid to start, for who can defeat it? Then he is told, \u201cThere is no lion on the way,\u201d meaning \u201cThere is none else besides Him,\u201d it is written. This is because there is no other force but Him, by way of \u201cand God has made it that He will be feared.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then he finds another excuse: \u201cPerhaps the Sage is not at home?\u201d His home is Nukva<\/em>, the Shechina<\/em> [Divinity]. Then he cannot know for certain if he is walking on the path of Kedusha<\/em> [holiness] or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is why he says that perhaps the Sage, meaning the Creator, is not at His home. That is, this is not His, not of the Kedusha<\/em>, so how can he know that he is advancing in Kedusha<\/em>? Then he is told: \u201cThe Sage is at His home,\u201d meaning \u201cOne\u2019s soul shall teach him,\u201d and at last he will know that he is advancing in Kedusha<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then he says, \u201cPerhaps the door is locked, and it is impossible to enter the palace, as in \u2018Not all who wish to take the Lord will come and take\u2019?\u201d Then he is told, \u201cThe door is not locked.\u201d After all, we see that many people have been rewarded with entering the palace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then he replies, \u201cEither way, I will not go.\u201d This means that if he is lazy and does not want to exert, he becomes argumentative and shrewd, and thinks that they are only making the work heavier on him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in truth, one who wishes to exert sees the opposite. He sees that many have succeeded. And those who do not want to exert see that there are people who did not succeed. And even though they did not succeed, it is because they discovered that they did not want to exert. But since he is lazy and only wants to justify his actions, he preaches like a wise man. In truth, the burden of Torah and Mitzvot<\/em> [commandments] should be accepted without any arguments or complaints, and then he will succeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I heard during the Shavuot meal, May 1947, Tel-Aviv \u201cA sage comes to town.\u201d The Creator is called \u201cSage\u201d [or \u201cwise\u201d]. 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