{"id":13183,"date":"2025-12-23T21:01:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=13183"},"modified":"2025-12-23T21:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:01:19","slug":"concerning-faith","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/concerning-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"215. Concerning Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I heard<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Faith, specifically, is pure work since the will to receive does not participate in this work. Moreover, the will to receive resists it. The nature of that desire is only to work in a place that it sees and knows. But above reason is not so. Hence, in this manner the&nbsp;<em>Dvekut<\/em>&nbsp;[adhesion] can be complete, since there is an element of equivalence here, meaning it is actually to bestow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, when this basis is fixed and exists in him, even when receiving good influences, he considers it an&nbsp;<em>Atreia<\/em>&nbsp;[Aramaic: warning], which, in&nbsp;<em>Gematria<\/em>, is Torah. And there should be fear with this Torah, meaning he should see that he does not receive any support or assistance from the Torah, but from faith. And even when he already considers it superfluous because he is already receiving from the quality of \u201ca pleasant land,\u201d he should believe that this is the truth. This is the meaning of \u201cAnd all believe that He is a God of faith,\u201d since specifically through faith can he maintain the degree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard Faith, specifically, is pure work since the will to receive does not participate in this work. 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