{"id":13103,"date":"2025-12-22T22:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=13103"},"modified":"2025-12-22T22:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:46:12","slug":"the-lots","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/the-lots\/","title":{"rendered":"192. The Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I heard in the year 1949, Tel-Aviv<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lots mean that they are both equal, and that it is impossible to examine with the intellect which is more important. This is why a lot is required. In&nbsp;<em>The Zohar<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Emor<\/em>, it asks, \u201cHow can a goat for the Lord and a goat for&nbsp;<em>Azazel<\/em>&nbsp;be equal?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing is that a goat for the Lord is considered \u201cright,\u201d and a goat for&nbsp;<em>Azazel<\/em>is considered \u201cleft,\u201d where there is&nbsp;<em>GAR de Hochma<\/em>. It is said about that, \u201crewarded\u2014good; not rewarded\u2014bad.\u201d This means that&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;of the quality of&nbsp;<em>Din<\/em>&nbsp;[judgment] appeared. This is considered a lock and a blocking on the lights. The lock is at the place of the&nbsp;<em>Chazeh<\/em>&nbsp;in each&nbsp;<em>Partzuf<\/em>; hence,&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>can shine up to the place of the lock, but stops at the place of the&nbsp;<em>Chazeh<\/em>, since any&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum<\/em>&nbsp;[restriction] works only from itself downward and not upward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the goat for the Lord is integrated with the left of the goat for&nbsp;<em>Azazel<\/em>, meaning with the&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>. However, it is not like the left of&nbsp;<em>Azazel<\/em>, where it is from above downward. This is why the light stops, since the lock takes effect, though only from below upward, at which time the lock is concealed and the key is revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It follows that concerning&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>, the goat for&nbsp;<em>Azazel<\/em>&nbsp;has&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;from the&nbsp;<em>GAR<\/em>, whereas the goat for the Lord is considered&nbsp;<em>VAK<\/em>. However,&nbsp;<em>VAK<\/em>&nbsp;can shine, while&nbsp;<em>GAR<\/em>&nbsp;must be stopped, hence the goat for&nbsp;<em>Azazel<\/em>, so the devil will not complain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He complains because his only wish is to extend&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>, which belongs to&nbsp;<em>Behina Dalet<\/em>, since it is not completed by any other degree, as its source is&nbsp;<em>Behina Dalet<\/em>. Therefore, if it does not receive into its own degree, it is not completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is why it always entices man to extend into&nbsp;<em>Behina Dalet<\/em>, and if man is unwilling, it has all kinds of ploys to force man to extend. Hence, when it is given a portion of the quality of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;it does not complain about Israel, since it is afraid that the abundance it already has would be stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet, when it extends&nbsp;<em>GAR de Hochma<\/em>, at that time Israel extends the&nbsp;<em>VAK de Hochma<\/em>. This light of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;is called \u201clight of absolution,\u201d by which one is awarded repentance from love, when sins become as virtues. This is the meaning of the goat for&nbsp;<em>Azazel<\/em>&nbsp;carrying the iniquities of the children of Israel upon it, meaning that all the iniquities of Israel have now become virtues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is the parable that&nbsp;<em>The Zohar<\/em>&nbsp;tells of a King\u2019s fool. When he is given wine and told of everything that he had done, even the bad deeds that he did, he says about those deeds that they are good deeds, and that there is none other like him in the whole world. In other words, the devil is called \u201cthe fool.\u201d When it is given wine, meaning&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;[wisdom], when it draws it, it is the light of absolution, and thus all the iniquities become as virtues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It follows that it says about all the bad deeds that they are good, since the sins have become as virtues. And since the devil wants to be given its share, it does not complain about Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the meaning of the complaints that were in Egypt: He asked, \u201cHow are these different from those? Either Israel die like the Egyptians, or Israel will return to Egypt.\u201d The thing is that Egypt is the source for extension of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>, but there it is&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;in the form of&nbsp;<em>GAR<\/em>, and when Israel were in Egypt they were under their control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard in the year 1949, Tel-Aviv The lots mean that they are both equal, and that it is impossible [&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-13103","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 | 192. 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