{"id":13108,"date":"2025-12-22T23:04:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T23:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=13108"},"modified":"2025-12-22T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T23:04:45","slug":"a-grip-for-the-external-ones","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/a-grip-for-the-external-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"196. A Grip for the External Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I heard in the year 1938<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We should know that the&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>&nbsp;can only get hold in a place of lack. In a place where there is wholeness, they flee and cannot touch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now we can understand the matter of the breaking: It is written in several places that it concerns the separation of the light of wisdom from the light of mercy. That is, since a&nbsp;<em>Parsa<\/em>&nbsp;[partition] was made between&nbsp;<em>Atzilut<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>BYA<\/em>, the light of wisdom cannot descend. 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