{"id":14864,"date":"2026-01-12T16:47:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=14864"},"modified":"2026-01-12T16:47:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:47:05","slug":"two-opposites","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/two-opposites\/","title":{"rendered":"914. Two Opposites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are two opposites in above reason\u2014in mind and in heart, which is regarded as \u201cfor he desires mercy.\u201d If foreign thoughts come to a person, he should remove them from him and not listen to them at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a hard work because Pharaoh king of Egypt afflicts them and throws foreign thoughts at them in mind and in heart, as it is written, \u201cAnd the children of Israel sighed from the work, and their cry went up to God.\u201d This is one side by which they are rewarded with faith, meaning the exodus from Egypt, and this is regarded as a soul of&nbsp;<em>Kedusha<\/em>&nbsp;[holiness].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, \u201ca soul without knowledge is not good, too,\u201d and we need the knowledge of&nbsp;<em>Kedusha<\/em>, which is called \u201cwealth,\u201d for there is no wealth except in&nbsp;<em>Daat<\/em>&nbsp;[reason\/knowledge]. When the Creator wanted to enrich them, they did not have&nbsp;<em>Kelim<\/em>&nbsp;[vessels] because everything was for them above reason, so the Creator gave them the advice to borrow&nbsp;<em>Kelim<\/em>&nbsp;from the Egyptians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The taking of the&nbsp;<em>Kelim<\/em>&nbsp;was only so they would be able to receive a filling for the&nbsp;<em>Kelim<\/em>, meaning answers to their questions. But once they took the answers, they immediately returned the&nbsp;<em>Kelim<\/em>&nbsp;to the Egyptians. 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