{"id":13457,"date":"2025-12-29T13:10:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=13457"},"modified":"2025-12-29T13:10:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:10:45","slug":"branch-and-root","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/branch-and-root\/","title":{"rendered":"661. Branch and Root"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An instantaneous reward is that a person should value the fact that he is observing the&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>&nbsp;[commandments] that the Creator commanded and the Torah [law] that the Creator gave. The whole reward is that he is obeying the Creator and is rewarded with speaking with the Creator. Another reward, such as receiving for himself, which is called \u201cself-benefit,\u201d is not regarded as work for the sake of the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The connection between spirituality and the corporeal body is called \u201cbranch and root.\u201d It is impossible to attain this before one is rewarded with Torah&nbsp;<em>Lishma<\/em>&nbsp;[for Her sake]. Prior to this, everything is a lie since before we attain the roots, it is impossible to connect them with the branches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, we must believe that all that there is in this world extends from Him, He sustains everything, and without Him, there is no force that will sustain this corporeal world. He even sustains the&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>&nbsp;[shells\/peels], as it is written, \u201cAnd His kingship rules over all,\u201d \u201cAnd You sustain them all,\u201d even the&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An instantaneous reward is that a person should value the fact that he is observing the&nbsp;Mitzvot&nbsp;[commandments] that the Creator commanded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":6246,"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":[26],"class_list":["post-13457","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-rabash"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kabbalah | 661. 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