{"id":13148,"date":"2025-12-23T16:56:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=13148"},"modified":"2025-12-23T16:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:56:17","slug":"the-purpose-of-the-work-2","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/the-purpose-of-the-work-2\/","title":{"rendered":"204. The Purpose of the Work \u2013 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I heard in the year 1938<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the preparation period, all the work is in the no\u2019s, that is, in the \u201cno,\u201d as it is written, \u201cand they shall be afflicted in a land that is not.\u201d However, with matters of the tongue, which is considered \u201cme,\u201d one must first be awarded the discernment of love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet, during the preparation, there is only work in the form of no\u2019s, regarded as \u201cYou shall not have,\u201d and by the profusion of no\u2019s, we come to the point of God<a href=\"https:\/\/kabbalahmedia.info\/en\/sources\/FWrR48Bb#fn1\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a>of&nbsp;<em>Hesed<\/em>&nbsp;[mercy]. But prior to that, there are many no\u2019s, which is other gods, many no\u2019s. This is so because from&nbsp;<em>Lo Lishma<\/em>&nbsp;[not for Her sake] we come to&nbsp;<em>Lishma<\/em>&nbsp;[for Her sake].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the&nbsp;<em>Sitra Achra<\/em>&nbsp;[other side] provides support, even afterwards, when we work and extend&nbsp;<em>Kedusha<\/em>&nbsp;[holiness], still, when she takes the support, we fall from the degree, and then she takes all the abundance that they extended. By this, the&nbsp;<em>Sitra Achra<\/em>&nbsp;has the power to control a person so he will be compelled to satisfy their wish. And he has no other choice but to raise himself to a higher degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then the sequence begins anew, as before, with the forty-nine gates of&nbsp;<em>Tuma\u2019a<\/em>[impurity]. This means that one walks in the degrees of&nbsp;<em>Kedusha<\/em>&nbsp;until the forty-nine gates. But there she has control to take all the vitality and abundance until a person falls each time into a higher gate of&nbsp;<em>Tuma\u2019a<\/em>, since \u201cGod has made them one opposite the other.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When one comes into the 49<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;gate, he can no longer raise himself until the Creator comes and redeems him. And then \u201cHe has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God shall cast them out of his belly.\u201d This means that now one takes all the abundance and vitality that the&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>&nbsp;[shell] was taking from all of the forty-nine gates of&nbsp;<em>Kedusha<\/em>. This is the meaning of \u201cthe looting of the sea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet, it is impossible to be redeemed before we feel the exile. And when we walk on the forty-nine, we feel the exile, and the Creator redeems on the 50<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;gate. The only difference between&nbsp;<em>Gola<\/em>&nbsp;[exile] and&nbsp;<em>Ge\u2019ula<\/em>&nbsp;[redemption] is in the&nbsp;<em>Aleph<\/em>, which is&nbsp;<em>Alupho Shel Olam<\/em>&nbsp;[Champion of the world]. Hence, if one does not properly attain the exile, too, he is deficient in the degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In Hebrew, the word God (<em>El<\/em>) and \u2018no\u2019 are written with the same letters but in the opposite order.<a href=\"https:\/\/kabbalahmedia.info\/en\/sources\/FWrR48Bb#fnref1\">\u21a9<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard in the year 1938 During the preparation period, all the work is in the no\u2019s, that is, in [&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-13148","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 | 204. 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