{"id":14752,"date":"2026-01-11T22:34:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=14752"},"modified":"2026-01-11T22:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:34:33","slug":"o-god-you-are-my-god-i-shall-seek-you-earnestly","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/o-god-you-are-my-god-i-shall-seek-you-earnestly\/","title":{"rendered":"O God, You Are My God; I Shall Seek You Earnestly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>364) \u201cA Psalm of David, when he was in the Judah desert.\u201d David sang when he fled from his father-in-law to the desert. Why did he say, \u201cO God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly &#8230; in a dry and weary land\u201d? \u201cYou are my God\u201d means that I always cling to the name of God,&nbsp;<em>Gevura<\/em>, since He is in the desert. \u201cI will seek You earnestly.\u201d How could David seek the Creator in a far off land while he was expelled from the land where Divinity is present, which is Jerusalem?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>365) However, even though David was expelled from there, he did not leave his own, meaning seeking the Creator. \u201cI will seek You\u201d is as though one says, \u201cI would go and appear before You, but I cannot.\u201d Thus, \u201cI will seek You, but I am outside the place where Divinity is present and I cannot seek you. \u201cMy soul longs for You,\u201d since my soul and my body yearn for You, to be seen before You. And I cannot because I am in a dry and weary land, without water, since outside the place where Divinity is present it is called \u201cA dry and weary land, for there is no living water here.\u201d Living water is Divinity, \u201cA well of living water.\u201d This is why it writes, \u201cA dry and weary land,\u201d without water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>364) \u201cA Psalm of David, when he was in the Judah desert.\u201d David sang when he fled from his father-in-law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":14654,"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":[28],"class_list":["post-14752","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-zohar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kabbalah | O God, You Are My God; 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