{"id":14283,"date":"2026-01-08T13:02:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=14283"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:02:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:02:40","slug":"the-klipa-of-ishmael","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/the-klipa-of-ishmael\/","title":{"rendered":"801. The\u00a0Klipa\u00a0of Ishmael"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cYou shall build the altar of the Lord your God of complete stones.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Even<\/em>&nbsp;[stone] comes from the word&nbsp;<em>Havanah<\/em>&nbsp;[understanding], meaning that he wants to understand. At that time, he also has wholeness, meaning that he accepts everything with faith. Then, \u201cYou shall offer on it burnt offerings to the Lord your God.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ola<\/em>&nbsp;[burnt offering] means it is all for the High One [<em>Ola<\/em>&nbsp;also means ascending]. That is, although he is already complete in the quality of \u201cheart,\u201d he still needs the quality of \u201cmind,\u201d which is complete stones, since there is no wholeness in the mind, for tomorrow he might think differently. But in faith there is wholeness, for there, there is no change once he has the degree of faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, faith, if he has a desire to understand, it is called the&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>&nbsp;[shell\/peel] of Ishmael.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou shall build the altar of the Lord your God of complete stones.\u201d Even&nbsp;[stone] comes from the word&nbsp;Havanah&nbsp;[understanding], meaning that [&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-14283","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 | 801. 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