{"id":13201,"date":"2025-12-23T22:54:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=13201"},"modified":"2025-12-23T22:54:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:54:38","slug":"completing-the-labor","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/completing-the-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"232. Completing the Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I heard<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI labored and did not find, do not believe.\u201d We must understand the meaning \u201cI found.\u201d What is there to find? Finding concerns the Creator finding us agreeable. \u201cI did not labor and found, do not believe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We must ask, after all, he is not lying; this is not about a person concerning himself as an individual. Rather, it is the same rule with the whole. And if one sees that he is favored by Him, why \u201cnot believe\u201d? The thing is that sometimes a person is rewarded with favor through prayer. This is because so is the power of the prayer\u2014it can act like labor. (As we see in corporeality, some get provision through their labor, and some get their provision through prayer. By asking for provision, he is allowed to provide for himself.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in spirituality, although he is rewarded with favor, he must still pay the full price later on\u2014the measure of the labor that everyone gives. If not, he will lose the&nbsp;<em>Kli<\/em>&nbsp;[vessel]. This is why he said, \u201cI did not labor and found, do not believe,\u201d since he will lose everything. 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