העבודה צורך גבוהService the Heights Need

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The mother wants to nurse more than the child to suck.

We do not bless the Infinite, who needs no blessing; we ask that His power flow through the sefirot. Uniting them, Cordovero writes, readies them as a throne for Him. They are channels, and the Infinite shines only into what is whole. Whoever mends them serves Him; whoever damages them is like one who tears the king's garments. Shaltiel asks how a human could mend or damage the heights. Yehoyada answers with a hanging chain: move the lowest link and the top one moves, though each person reaches only the root of his own soul. Against Job's 'If you sin, what do you do to Him?' he cites the Zohar: sin never touches what the upper worlds need for themselves, only the added flow meant for us. A mother wants to nurse more than her child wants to suck.

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