{"id":13185,"date":"2025-12-23T21:13:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=13185"},"modified":"2025-12-23T21:13:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:13:21","slug":"if-i-am-not-for-me-who-is-for-me","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/if-i-am-not-for-me-who-is-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"217. If I Am Not for Me, Who Is for Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I heard on&nbsp;<em>Adar Aleph<\/em>&nbsp;27<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf I am not for me who is for me, and when I am for myself, what am I?\u201d This is an inherent contradiction. The thing is that one should do all of one\u2019s work by way of \u201cIf I am not for me, who is for me,\u201d that no one can save him, but \u201cby your mouth, and by your heart to do it,\u201d that is, a discernment of reward and punishment. However, to oneself, in private, one should know that \u201cwhen I am for myself, what am I?\u201d This means that everything is in private Providence and no one can do anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you say that if everything is in private Providence, why is there the issue of working in the form of \u201cIf I am not for me, who is for me?\u201d Yet, through working in the form of \u201cIf I am not for me, who is for me,\u201d one is awarded private Providence, meaning attains it. Thus, everything follows the path of correction, and the distribution of added fondness, called \u201cchildren of the Creator,\u201d is not revealed unless it is preceded by work in the form of \u201cIf I am not for me, who is for me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard on&nbsp;Adar Aleph&nbsp;27 \u201cIf I am not for me who is for me, and when I am for myself, [&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-13185","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 | 217. 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