{"id":14307,"date":"2026-01-08T13:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=14307"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:52:20","slug":"wholeness-in-life","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/wholeness-in-life\/","title":{"rendered":"809. Wholeness in Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cOne does not die with half one\u2019s desire in one\u2019s hand.\u201d \u201cHe who has one hundred wants two hundred.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The question is, What is it like in spirituality? Is there no wholeness in life there, too, and one always lives in deficiency?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One does not feel a lack for spirituality so as to say that he cannot live without it, since man\u2019s lack, which he feels in himself, is that he must receive pleasure. He is filled by corporeal things, which is nourishment that is abundant in the world, since this was prepared for us by the Creator so that by them we would be able to exist in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, since the desire to do good impels us to receive pleasure, we satisfy the desire for pleasure with corporeal pleasures. This is akin to food that is not very expensive, meaning that we do not need to make great efforts in order to buy them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only when one has been filled with all the corporeal pleasures and has no deficiency that he did not satisfy, and no deficiency or yearning for corporeality is left in him, then he has no vitality or pleasure, for only the deficiency and yearning give flavor to something. At that time, he begins to feel that it is worthwhile to see if there is vitality and pleasure in spirituality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, sometimes a cause from aside takes from him the deficiency and yearning for corporeality. 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