{"id":9472,"date":"2025-11-22T22:32:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T22:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=9472"},"modified":"2025-11-28T20:51:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T20:51:45","slug":"letter-no-28","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/letter-no-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter No. 28"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>March 14, 1927, London<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To my student &#8230; may his candle burn:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; The above mentioned letter, which was not sent at the time of its writing, I will now reply to you about it. I will also reply to your latest letter from the beginning of the month,&nbsp;<em>Adar Bet<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; Regarding your question about&nbsp;<em>NHYM<\/em>, that I did not explain the right, left, and middle about them, it is also because it belongs to the quality of the&nbsp;<em>Ohr Hozer<\/em>&nbsp;[reflected light], and I have already written you that the qualities of the&nbsp;<em>Ohr Hozer<\/em>&nbsp;need all the clarifications in my books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How many times have I commented to you that the spiritual qualities can never be better than the corporeal qualities, yet you insist that you do not feel the taste of servitude in cleanness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my view, any place where there is a desire for servitude is already lost there &#8230; from the work, since delaying the contentment and the drawn-out abundance is called servitude, as was said, \u201cA servant let loose feels comfortable.\u201d Therefore, while being tied under the burden of his master\u2019s enslavement, he is called \u201ca servant\u201d and \u201cserving.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See in the \u201cPreface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,\u201d that work and labor extend from the&nbsp;<em>Masach<\/em>&nbsp;[screen] that delays the upper light, which it covets very much, while the reward extends from the&nbsp;<em>Ohr Hozer<\/em>. Thus,&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;returns to being&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>&nbsp;and emerges from servitude to complete redemption with simple&nbsp;<em>Rachamim<\/em>&nbsp;[mercies], which is&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is why our sages said, \u201cA servant who is not worth his belly\u2019s bread [the bread he eats],\u201d since the&nbsp;<em>Ohr Hozer<\/em>&nbsp;is defined as&nbsp;<em>NHYM<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>NHY<\/em>&nbsp;<em>de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;that mate in&nbsp;<em>Hakaa<\/em>, as it is known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the servant were worth his belly\u2019s bread up to&nbsp;<em>Galgalta<\/em>&nbsp;[his head], he would be redeemed. But he is worth only up to his own belly, meaning that his intention to delay does not have the hardness of the&nbsp;<em>Masach<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>Behina<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Dalet<\/em>, but in order to receive. It follows that his delaying&nbsp;<em>Masach<\/em>&nbsp;will be a vessel of reception, too, and not a&nbsp;<em>Kli<\/em>&nbsp;that delays, for which the&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>&nbsp;will become&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>. Thus, only the belly is added from the&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>NHYM<\/em>&nbsp;is his belly. Hence, he remains a slave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All these discernments between the&nbsp;<em>Masach de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<em>Masach<\/em>&nbsp;of the belly come to him by utter and complete loathing the vessels of reception into his own stomach. That is, even the pleasure that extends to his belly by itself seemed to him like the pleasure of one who itches and rubs boils [disease], which is a detestable pleasure to any person because the harm is obvious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through the detestable force in nature, a second nature is imprinted in him, to truly loathe the pleasures of his gut. By this, his&nbsp;<em>Masach<\/em>&nbsp;is assisted by the delaying force as&nbsp;<em>Behina<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Dalet<\/em>&nbsp;that returns to being&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what shall we do to those who are not so meticulous about cleanness and detestable things, even in their first, corporeal nature? We should feel very sorry for them because from their perspective, they are cleansed and have already come to loathe what should be loathed. Yet, they cannot discern very well due to the nature of their corporeality that they are not fleeing as carefully as they should, even with corporeal detestable things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This answers your question about hypocrisy, for which you came up with the mistake that the world was created for work, and what is to me a reward, you inadvertently mistake for work. You should correct yourself before I come to Jerusalem, and even more so before Passover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yehuda Leib<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 14, 1927, London To my student &#8230; may his candle burn: &#8230; The above mentioned letter, which was not 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