{"id":13845,"date":"2026-01-05T16:52:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=13845"},"modified":"2026-01-05T16:52:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:52:28","slug":"this-world-and-the-future","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/this-world-and-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"690. This World and the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>March 1962<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this world, a man builds a building and then ruins it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, anything that one does, any construction, and a construction means it is something sustainable, such as when a person does some corporeal lust, the lust is not regarded as a construction because it is only temporary. When the lust passes away, nothing is left of it, such as eating and drinking, and so forth. But when one learns or prays, this exists after the action, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is called a \u201cconstruction.\u201d However, that construction is not for one\u2019s own sake, but rather another dwells in it. In other words, he builds the building for another. Like a contractor builds houses for other people, one who engages in Torah and&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>&nbsp;[commandments] for others, it is called&nbsp;<em>Lo<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Lishma<\/em>&nbsp;[not for Her sake]. It follows that it is not for himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in the future, he will not build so that another will dwell. That is, when a person engages in Torah and&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Lishma<\/em>&nbsp;[for Her sake]\u2014meaning that now he engages in Torah and&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>&nbsp;in order to achieve&nbsp;<em>Lishma<\/em>, and he will be rewarded with the quality of&nbsp;<em>Lishma<\/em>&nbsp;afterward, which is called \u201cin the future\u201d\u2014there the building, meaning the Torah and&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>, will not be built so that another will dwell in it. Rather, he himself will dwell in it because the engagement in Torah and&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>&nbsp;is for his own purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We should also say that when one works for the purpose of this world, meaning in order to receive, he cannot enjoy it because there is a&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum<\/em>&nbsp;[restriction] on reception. It follows that \u201canother will dwell in it.\u201d That is, through the exertion he is making, it is so that, as it is written, \u201cIf he is rewarded, he takes his part and the part of his friend in the Garden of Eden.\u201d That is, one who is rewarded with entering the Garden of Eden takes the labor that others labored in Torah and&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is considered that they are raising the Torah and&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>&nbsp;of the general public, as in \u201cA thousand enter a room, and one comes out to the light.\u201d But in the future, one who exerts to achieve&nbsp;<em>Lishma<\/em>, meaning the aim to bestow, will be rewarded with receiving the reward for the labor he had made. It follows that he himself will dwell in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 1962 In this world, a man builds a building and then ruins it. 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