{"id":13180,"date":"2025-12-23T20:50:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=13180"},"modified":"2025-12-23T20:50:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:50:23","slug":"embrace-of-the-right-embrace-of-the-left","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/embrace-of-the-right-embrace-of-the-left\/","title":{"rendered":"212. Embrace of the Right, Embrace of the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I heard on&nbsp;<em>Kislev<\/em>&nbsp;8, November 28, 1941<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is the embrace of the right and there is the embrace of the left, and both must be eternal. This means that when one is in the state of \u201cright,\u201d he should think that there is no such quality as \u201cleft\u201d in the world. And also, when one is in the left, he should think that there is no such quality as \u201cright\u201d in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRight\u201d means private Providence, and \u201cleft\u201d means guidance of reward and punishment. Although there is reason which says that there is no such thing as right and left together, he must work above reason, meaning that reason will not stop him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most important is the above reason. This means that one\u2019s whole work is measured by his work above reason. Although he later comes into within, it is nothing, since his basis is the above reason, so he always suckles from his root.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, if, when he comes into within reason, he wants specifically to be fed within reason, at that time the light immediately departs. If he wants to extend, he must begin with above reason, as this is his whole root. 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