{"id":12984,"date":"2025-12-22T01:53:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=12984"},"modified":"2025-12-22T01:53:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:53:01","slug":"the-scrutiny-of-bitter-and-sweet-true-and-false","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/the-scrutiny-of-bitter-and-sweet-true-and-false\/","title":{"rendered":"148. The Scrutiny of Bitter and Sweet, True and False"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I heard<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a scrutiny of \u201cbitter and sweet,\u201d and there is a scrutiny of \u201ctrue and false.\u201d The scrutiny of \u201ctrue and false\u201d is in the mind, and the scrutiny of \u201cbitter and sweet\u201d is in the heart. This is why we must pay attention to the work in the heart, to be in the form of bestowal and not in the form of reception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By nature, only reception is sweet to man, and bestowal is bitter. And the work\u2014to turn reception to bestowal is called \u201cthe work in the heart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the mind, the work is of \u201ctrue and false.\u201d And for this, we need to work in faith, meaning have faith in the sages. 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