August 1926<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To my soul mate, may his candle burn:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
… However, keep away from suffering a man\u2019s jolt prematurely, for \u201cWhere one thinks is where one is.\u201d Therefore, when a person is certain that he will not lack abundance, he can focus his efforts on words of Torah because \u201cthe blessed adheres to the Blessed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But lack of confidence behooves labor, and any labor is from the Sitra<\/em> Achra<\/em>[other side], and \u201cThe cursed does not adhere to the blessed,\u201d for he will not be able to focus all his efforts on words of Torah. And yet, if he wishes to travel overseas, he should not contemplate these things at all, but very quickly, as though the blink of an eye, and will return to normalcy, so as not to scatter his sparks in times and places that apart from this are still not sufficiently united.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Know that no flaw comes from the lower ones except in the permitted time and place, as it is now, meaning whether helpful or regretful, or God forbid despairs at the present moment, it is \u201crushing the end in all the times and in all the places in the world.\u201d This is the meaning of \u201ca moment of His fury\u201d and \u201cHow much is His fury? A moment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Therefore, one has no choice but to direct all the present and future moments to be offered and presented to His great name. One who rejects a moment before him for it is difficult, displays his folly openly, for all the worlds and all the times are not worthwhile for him because the light of His face is not clothed in the changing times and occasions although one\u2019s work certainly changes because of them. This is why thanks to our holy fathers, faith and confidence above reason have been prepared for us, which one uses in the tougher times effortlessly and tirelessly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the meaning of \u201cBy this comes lightly, ready for all His works on those six days.\u201d The letter Hey<\/em>, which is the root of creation, is a light letter, and laboring to enhance its level does not help at all, for it is thrown, as in \u201cno reason and no end.\u201d Therefore, one who assumes the complete burden of the kingdom of heaven finds no labor in the work of the Creator, and can therefore adhere to the Creator day and night, in light and in darkness. The rain\u2014which is created in coming and going, changes and exchanges\u2014will not stop him since the Keter<\/em>, which is Ein Sof<\/em>, illuminates to all completely equally. The fool\u2014who walks under a flood of preventions that pour on him from before and from behind\u2014says to all that he does not feel the deficiency of the cessation of Dvekut<\/em> [adhesion] as a corruption or iniquity on his part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Had he felt it, he would certainly have strained to find some tactic to at least be saved from the cessation of Dvekut<\/em>, whether more or less. This tactic has never been denied of anyone who sought it, either as in \u201cthe thought of faith\u201d or as in \u201cconfidence,\u201d or as in \u201cpleas of his prayer,\u201d which are suitable for a person specifically in the narrow and pressured places, for even a thief in hiding calls on the Creator. For this reason, it does not require Mochin de<\/em> Gadlut<\/em> to keep the branch from being cut off from its root.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf he does not do these three for her,\u201d she shall \u201cgo out\u201d into the public domain under the enslavement of people, \u201cfree, without money,\u201d to this master, because he will not be given anything for his labor in idle things. It is as it is written, \u201cThey that make them shall be like them,\u201d etc., and what will one who was created by the worshipped\u2014who bows to his own work\u2014ask of them? Therefore, anyone who says he has preventions from above, I say about him that he lies in the name of his Maker. He maliciously pretends to be unable because he does not have the real desire to adhere to the Creator due to his strong ties to the Ketarim<\/em> [pl. of Keter<\/em>] of impurity. That is, he does not wish wholeheartedly to part from them forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the meaning of the words, \u201cAnd you who have no money come, buy, and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.\u201d In other words, our only prayer to the Creator to give us of His wisdom and splendor is because He desires us to adorn ourselves before Him with these desires, as in, \u201cSpirit draws spirit and brings spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, because it is impolite to come before the king without some request … but in truth, we have no business with the gift itself, but in being granted with Dvekut<\/em> with Him, whether less or more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thus, a slave who wants to cling to the king out of the craving in his heart begins to practice royal manners and sets up for him some request. But the king rejects him. If he is clever, he will say to the king the sincerity of the point in his heart\u2014that he desires no gifts, but for the king to assign him any service, the least of the least, in whatever way, as long as he is even slightly attached to the king in a connection that will not be stopped. Instantaneously, the king has revealed it to us in the form of Dvekut<\/em> [adhesion], which is contemptible in the eyes of the lowly and its value is always according to the measure of desire of the point in the heart, meaning the prayer, faith, and confidence that he will never be wanting, even for a moment during the twenty-four hours of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the lowly\u2014in their point in the heart\u2014do not crave Dvekut<\/em> with the King Himself, with the King\u2019s body, but with His numerous gifts, who distributes property and strength with wonderful delights, sparks flow from the bottom of the heart toward His immense gifts. For this reason, they find Dvekut<\/em> with Him laborious, for what will they get out of it and other forms of \u201cso what\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rather, \u201capples of gold…\u201d for which anyone who understands will mock those worshippers whose heart is deficient, who say to all that they are fools because they say they have preventions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But \u201cThe covenant of the fathers did not end,\u201d and \u201cHe who comes to purify is aided.\u201d First thing in the morning, when he rises from his sleep, he should sanctify the first moment with Dvekut<\/em> with Him, pour out his heart to the Creator to keep him throughout the twenty-four hours of the day so that no idle thought will come into his mind, and he will not consider it impossible or above nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Indeed, it is the image of nature that makes an iron partition, and one should cancel nature\u2019s partitions that he feels. Rather, first he must believe that nature\u2019s partitions do not cut off from Him. Afterward, he should pray from the bottom of his heart, even for something that is above his natural desire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Understand this always, even when forms that are not of Kedusha<\/em> [holiness] traverse you, and they will instantly stop when you remember. See that you pour out your heart that henceforth the Creator will save you from cessations of Dvekut<\/em> with Him. Gradually, your heart will grow accustomed to the Creator and will yearn to adhere to Him in truth, and the Lord\u2019s desire will succeed by you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yehuda Leib<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 1926 To my soul mate, may his candle burn: … However, keep away from suffering a man\u2019s jolt prematurely, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":6225,"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":[25],"class_list":["post-9446","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-baal-hasulam"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n