{"id":9955,"date":"2025-11-27T16:20:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=9955"},"modified":"2025-11-27T16:20:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:20:41","slug":"why-have-you-brought-harm","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/why-have-you-brought-harm\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Have You Brought Harm?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>72) It is written in Elijah, \u201cAnd he cried to the Lord, \u2018O Lord my God, have You brought harm even upon the widow with whom I stay, to kill her son?\u2019\u201d There were two who spoke against the Creator, Moses and Elijah. Moses said, \u201cO Lord, why have You brought harm to this people,\u201d and Elijah said, \u201cYou brought harm \u2026 to kill her son.\u201d They were both saying the same thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>73) Moses said, \u201cWhy have You brought harm\u201d because the Sitra Achra was given dominion over Israel. \u201cBrought harm\u201d means You have given permission to the other side, of evil, to rule over them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elijah said, \u201cbrought harm,\u201d since You have given permission for the Sitra Achra to take the soul of this one. It is all one, since \u201cbrought harm\u201d means giving permission to the Sitra Achra, who is called \u201charm.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>74) Elijah said, \u201chave You brought harm even upon the widow with whom I stay, to kill her son,\u201d since the Creator said to Elijah, \u201cBehold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.\u201d Anyone who nurtures and sustains one who needs him, especially at a time of famine, unites and clings to the tree of life and causes life for himself and for his sons. And Elijah said, \u201cAnyone who sustains a soul in the world is rewarded with life for himself and is rewarded with uniting with the tree of life. And now the tree of death, meaning the evil side, governs the widow that You have commanded to sustain me.\u201d This is why he said, \u201cYou brought harm.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>75) But no harm comes to man from the Creator? When one walks to the right, the Creator\u2019s keeping is always with him, the Sitra Achra cannot govern him, and this harm surrenders before him and cannot rule. And because the Creator\u2019s keeping has been removed from him, if he clings to the evil, since that evil sees that there is no keeping with him, it then governs him and comes to destroy him, and then he is given permission and he takes his soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>76) Moses said, \u201cWhy have You brought harm to this people,\u201d since the evil side was given permission to rule over Israel, to be enslaved by him. Did he see how many of Israel were dying and were handed over to the evil side?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>77) When the good, which is the right side, awakens, every joy, every good, and all the blessings are found. And it is all in secret, as the sons of Jacob said, \u201cBlessed by the name of the glory of His kingdom forever and ever,\u201d in secret. This is so because at that time it is a proper unification. This explains why Joseph said during the unification, \u201cHave everyone go out from me,\u201d since the unification must be in secret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>78) But Elijah\u2014who sentences and the Creator keeps, as he sentenced the heavens to not pour down dew and rain\u2014how did he fear Jezebel [Izevel], who sent for him, as it is written, \u201cIf I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time,\u201d and promptly, \u201cHe was afraid &#8230; and went for his soul\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>79) The righteous do not wish to trouble their Master where harm is evident. Such was Samuel, who said, \u201cHow can I go? If Saul hears, he will kill me.\u201d He told him, \u201cTake a heifer with you,\u201d since the righteous do not wish to trouble their Master where harm is evident. It is the same with Elijah: since he saw that harm was evident, he did not wish to trouble his Master.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>80) It does not say about Elijah, \u201cAnd he was afraid and ran for his life,\u201d but rather, \u201cAnd when he saw that,\u201d meaning he saw, in sight. He saw that the angel of death has been following him for several years and he was not given into his hands. But now, \u201cAnd went for his soul,\u201d meaning he went to sustain the soul, which is the tree of life, to cling to there. And the angel of death would no longer follow him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>81) In all the places, it is written, \u201cHis soul.\u201d But here it writes, \u201cFor his soul.\u201d All the souls in the world come from the same river, Yesod of ZA, which stretches and comes out. And that bundle of life, the Nukva, takes all of them. When the Nukva is impregnated by the male, they are all in yearning from both sides, from the craving of the female to the male, and from the craving of the male to the female.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And when the craving of the male comes out with great desire, the souls are more alive because everything depends on the craving and the desire of the tree of life, ZA. And since Elijah was from that craving of the male, more than other people, he lived and did not die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>82) This is why it is written, \u201cFor his soul,\u201d since \u201cHis soul\u201d is female, for the Nukva is called Et [\u201cof\u201d]. But El [\u201cfor\u201d or \u201cto\u201d] is male. Thus, \u201cFor his soul\u201d indicates male only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And when it is written, \u201cAnd to the woman,\u201d the female, it is in general, male and female, since when the Nukva is included in the male, it is said, \u201cAnd to the woman he said.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo the woman\u201d means his soul, indicating to a female only, without mingling with the male.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And because Elijah is from the side of the male more than all the other people in the world, he persisted in his existence more than all the people in the world. He did not die like the rest of the people in the world because he is entirely from the tree of life, and not from dust, like the rest of the people. And this is the reason why he departed above and did not die as do all the people in the world, as it is written, \u201cAnd Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>83) It is written, \u201cBehold, there appeared a chariot of fire and horses of fire which separated the two of them, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.\u201d This is so because then the body was parted from the spirit and departed not as the rest of the people. He remained a holy angel like the rest of the high angels, doing a mission in the world like an angel. In other words, the miracles that the Creator does in the world are done by him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>84) It is written, \u201cAnd he requested for himself that he might die.\u201d Previously, it wrote, \u201cAnd went for his soul,\u201d which concerns existence, but here it is written, \u201cThat he might die,\u201d which indicates to the tree where there is death, the Nukva, as it is written, \u201cAnd her legs go down to death.\u201d And there the Creator appeared before him, as it is written, \u201cAnd He said, \u2018Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Afterwards, it is written, \u201cAnd after the earthquake a fire &#8230; and after the fire a still small voice.\u201d This is the innermost place, from which all the lights come out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>85) \u201cWhen Elijah heard it &#8230; he said, \u2018I have been very jealous for the Lord.\u2019\u201d The Creator told him, \u201cHow long will you be jealous for Me? You have closed the door so that death will never rule over you, and the world cannot tolerate you being with My children, whom you slander.\u201d He told Him, \u201cFor the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant.\u201d He told him, \u201cBut wherever people keep the holy covenant,\u201d meaning perform the circumcision, \u201cYou will be there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>86) What did Elijah\u2019s thing cause? 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