{"id":13346,"date":"2025-12-26T12:42:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T12:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=13346"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:43:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:43:01","slug":"go-up-into-the-negev","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/go-up-into-the-negev\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Up into the Negev"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>55. The Creator praises in the Torah and says, \u201cWalk in My ways and engage in My work, and I will bring you to good worlds, to upper worlds.\u201d People who do not know and do not believe and do not look, the Creator tells them, \u201cGo and spy on the good world, the nice, upper world.\u201d They reply, \u201cHow can we spy on it and know all that?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>56. The Creator tells them, \u201cGo up into the Negev and go up into the hill country, and see what the land is, and whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak.\u201d \u201cGo up into the Negev\u201d means delve in Torah, and see that it stands before you, and from it you will know that world. \u201cAnd see what the land is,\u201d meaning that from that world, see that world that is an inheritance and a portion into which I bring you. \u201cAnd whether the people who dwell in it\u201d are the righteous in the Garden of Eden, standing row after row in the upper glory of the high degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>57. \u201cWhether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many.\u201d In it, you will see if you are rewarded with all that because they \u200eovercame their inclination by strength and broke it, or by weakness, without effort. 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