{"id":13386,"date":"2025-12-27T18:37:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T18:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=13386"},"modified":"2026-01-03T18:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:06:06","slug":"rabash-letter-no-12b","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/rabash-letter-no-12b\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter No. 12 (b)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>October 1955<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To the friends, may they live long,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have no news and I hope that the Creator will make my way successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am writing to you a summary of the talk I gave to the students of Rav Desler concerning the&nbsp;<em>Sukkah<\/em>&nbsp;(a hut on the festival of&nbsp;<em>Sukkot<\/em>), called \u201cshadow of faith.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A&nbsp;<em>Sukkah<\/em>&nbsp;means thatch, which is the waste of barn and winery. A thatch is called \u201cshade,\u201d and shade is called \u201cconcealment of the face.\u201d In order not to have the bread of shame, we have room for work, meaning that we can engage in Torah and&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>&nbsp;although we feel no flavor or vitality. Naturally, afterwards we can receive the vitality and not blemish the gift, meaning that the gift will not be blemished due to the shame that is present in the receiver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And before we can receive the vitality of the Torah, we must receive vitality form corporeal things because without vitality it is impossible to live. This is why the Creator has prepared for us reception of vitality from corporeality. This means that vitality is called \u201clight\u201d and \u201cpleasure,\u201d and pleasure is spirituality. It is a rule that there is no light without a&nbsp;<em>Kli<\/em>&nbsp;(vessel), meaning there is no such thing as pleasure without clothing. For this reason, the whole difference is not in the pleasure, called \u201clight,\u201d but in the clothing, meaning in the&nbsp;<em>Kli<\/em>, since there is a clothing of falsehood, and clothing of truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is similar to a five-year-old girl playing with a doll. The girl is playing with the doll as though the doll is a real child with feelings. And although the doll does not respond, she talks to it. At the same time, if there is a six month old baby in the house, and he is crying, and the five year old girl is told, \u201cGo play with the real baby and we will benefit as well because the baby will not cry,\u201d she will refuse completely. That is, she cannot derive pleasure from a clothing of truth, but from a clothing of falsehood. But as for the pleasure, we see that the girl is feeling real pleasure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But when the girl has grown to be eighteen, she must derive pleasure from a clothing of truth. Likewise, before we grow up, we derive pleasure specifically from&nbsp;<em>Lo<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Lishma<\/em>&nbsp;(not for Her sake), regarded as \u201cclothing of falsehood.\u201d This is called \u201cshadow,\u201d \u201cconcealment,\u201d and then there is room for work, and we derive vitality from false things. Afterwards, when we are rewarded, we receive the light of faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 1955 To the friends, may they live long, I have no news and I hope that the Creator will 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