{"id":12996,"date":"2025-12-22T02:20:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T02:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=12996"},"modified":"2025-12-22T02:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T02:20:48","slug":"there-cannot-be-an-empty-space-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/there-cannot-be-an-empty-space-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"154. There Cannot Be an Empty Space in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I heard on&nbsp;<em>Shevat<\/em>&nbsp;7, January 18, 1948, Tel Aviv<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There cannot be an empty space in the world. Because man\u2019s essence is the desire, as this is the essence of creation, this is where one\u2019s greatness and smallness are measured. It follows that one must have some desire\u2014either for corporeality or for spirituality. One who is devoid of these desires is considered dead, since the whole of creation is only the desire, considered existence from absence. And because he lacks this substance, the substance of the whole of creation, it is naturally considered that he is regarded as aborted and he cannot last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, one should try to have a desire, as this is the whole substance of creation. But the desire must be clarified, as it is natural that each animal feels what is harmful to it. Similarly, we must take note that the desire will be for something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard on&nbsp;Shevat&nbsp;7, January 18, 1948, Tel Aviv There cannot be an empty space in the world. 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