{"id":13102,"date":"2025-12-22T22:42:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=13102"},"modified":"2025-12-22T22:42:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:42:30","slug":"the-time-of-descent","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/the-time-of-descent\/","title":{"rendered":"191. The Time of Descent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I heard on&nbsp;<em>Sivan<\/em>&nbsp;14, June 1938<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is hard to depict the time of descent, when all the works and the efforts made from the beginning of the work until the time of descent are lost. To one who has never tasted the taste of servitude of the Creator, it seems as though this is outside of him, meaning that this happens to those of high degrees. But regular people have no connection to the work of the Creator, only to crave the corporeal will to receive, present in the flow of the world, washing the whole world with this desire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, we must understand why they have come to such a state. After all, with or without one\u2019s consent, there is no change in the creation of heaven and earth; He behaves in a manner of good and doing good. Thus, what is the outcome of this state?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We should say that it comes to announce His greatness. One does not need to act as though he does not want Her. Rather, one should behave in a manner of fearing the exaltedness, to know the merit and the distance between him and the Creator. It is difficult to understand this with a superficial mind, or have any possibility of connection between the Creator and creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a descent he feels that it is impossible that he will have connection or belonging to the Creator by way of&nbsp;<em>Dvekut<\/em>&nbsp;[adhesion], since he feels that servitude is a foreign thing to the whole world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In truth, this is so. But \u201cIn the place where you find His greatness, there you find His humbleness.\u201d This means that it is a matter that is above nature, that the Creator gave this gift to creation in order to allow them to be connected and adhered to Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence, when one becomes reconnected, he should always remember his time of descent so as to know, understand, appreciate, and value the time of&nbsp;<em>Dvekut<\/em>, so he will know that now he has salvation above the natural way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard on&nbsp;Sivan&nbsp;14, June 1938 It is hard to depict the time of descent, when all the works and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":6231,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"topic":[25],"class_list":["post-13102","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-baal-hasulam"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kabbalah | 191. 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