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Rewarded - I Will Hasten It
195. Rewarded—I Will Hasten It
I heard in the year 1938
“Rewarded—I will hasten it,” meaning the path of Torah; “not rewarded—through suffering,” an evolutionary path that will finally lead everything to utter perfection. The path of Torah means that an ordinary person is given virtues by which he can make for himself Kelim [vessels] that are ready for it. And the Kelim are made through the expansion of the light and its departure.
A Kli [vessel] is specifically called “the will to receive.” This means that he lacks something, and “there is no light without a Kli,” for the light must be caught in some Kli, so it would have a hold.
But an ordinary person cannot have desires for sublime things, since it is impossible to have a need before there is fulfillment, as it is written, “the expansion of the light, etc.” For example, when a person has a thousand pounds, he is rich and content. However, if he subsequently earns more, up to five thousand pounds, and then loses until he is left with two thousand, he is then deficient. Now he has Kelim [vessels] for three thousand pounds, since he had already had it. Thus, he has actually been canceled.
And there is a path of Torah for this. When one is accustomed to the path of Torah, to regret the scantiness of attainment, and every time he has some illuminations, and they are divided, they cause him to have more sorrow and more Kelim.
This is the meaning of every Kli needing light, that it is not filled, that its light is missing. Thus, every deficient place becomes a place for faith. Yet, were it filled, there would be no existence of a Kli, existence of a place for faith.