{"id":13179,"date":"2025-12-23T20:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=13179"},"modified":"2025-12-23T20:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:47:07","slug":"as-though-standing-before-a-king","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/as-though-standing-before-a-king\/","title":{"rendered":"211. As Though Standing before a King"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I heard on&nbsp;<em>Elul<\/em>&nbsp;1, August 28, 1938<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One who is sitting at one\u2019s home is not as one who is standing before a King. This means that faith should be that he will feel all day as though he is standing before the King. Then his love and fear will certainly be complete. As long as he has not achieved this kind of faith, he should not rest, \u201cfor this is our lives and the length of our days,\u201d and we will accept no recompense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the lack of faith should be woven in his limbs until the habit becomes a second nature, to the extent that \u201cWhen I remember Him, He does not let me sleep.\u201d But all the corporeal matters quench this lack, since he sees that anything that gives him pleasure, the pleasure cancels the deficiency and the pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather, he must want no consolation, and should be careful with any corporeal thing that he receives, so it does not quench his desire. This is done by regretting that by this pleasure, the sparks and powers of the&nbsp;<em>Kelim<\/em>&nbsp;[vessels] of&nbsp;<em>Kedusha<\/em>&nbsp;[holiness] are missing in him, meaning desires for&nbsp;<em>Kedusha<\/em>. Through the sorrow, he can keep from losing&nbsp;<em>Kelim<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>Kedusha<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard on&nbsp;Elul&nbsp;1, August 28, 1938 One who is sitting at one\u2019s home is not as one who is standing [&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-13179","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 | 211. 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