## Kuntres HaHitpa'alut Chapter 26

###### Kuntres HaHitpa'alut 26:1
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**והנה** למטה מבחינת המעשה דסור מרע ועשה טוב העצמיים דנפש האלקית שמאיר בזה בחינת אלקות בגילוי באמונה פשוטה על כל פנים בהחלט המחשבה ורצון כנזכר לעיל.

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, the Neirot Foundation, 2024:**
So far, in regard to the levels of the Divine soul, we have spoken about the level of deed. This is the essential quality of the Divine soul to desist from evil and do good. The aspect of revealed Godliness shines there in simple faith, at least within the resolve of thought and desire, as mentioned above.


###### Kuntres HaHitpa'alut 26:2
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הנה הוא כדוגמא שמצינו בערב רב שלא היה כוונתם רצויה בעצמיות מצד נפשם רק ממה שראו הנסים כו׳.

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, the Neirot Foundation, 2024:**
However, there is a lower level than this. An example may be found in the mixed multitude of peoples that departed from Egypt with the Jewish people. In and of themselves, their motivation was not a proper one by virtue of their souls. Rather, they were motivated as a result of the miracles they beheld etc.


###### Kuntres HaHitpa'alut 26:3
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על כן מיד בראותם שמובדלים מישראל עשו העגל כו׳.

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, the Neirot Foundation, 2024:**
As a result, as soon as they realized that they were apart from the Jewish people they made the golden calf etc.


###### Kuntres HaHitpa'alut 26:4
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וכך יש הרבה גם בישראל שעיקר המעשה רק לעצמם בלבד לקנות שם בלבד וכמו שכתוב ברעיא מהימנא על פסוק אנשי שם,

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, the Neirot Foundation, 2024:**
Likewise, there are also many Jews whose primary motivation in doing good deeds is from selfish motives, such as solely to acquire a good reputation, as Raaya Mehemna¹ comments on the words of the verse, “Men of repute.”²

footnotes:
¹ Zohar Bereishit 25b
² Numbers 16:2


###### Kuntres HaHitpa'alut 26:5
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אך שמטעים את עצמם ביותר להיות צדיקים גמורים בעיניהם והעיקר אצלם רק לומר למען שמי דוקא יכבד ה׳ כו׳. והם הנקרא אחיכם שונאיכם מנדיכם כו׳ כידוע.

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, the Neirot Foundation, 2024:**
Such people greatly delude themselves in considering themselves to be perfectly righteous when, in reality, the main thing for them is just to think, “For the sake of my reputation” - specifically - “will *HaShem*-יהו"ה be glorified.”³ These people are called, “Your brothers who hate and shun you”⁴ etc., as known.

footnotes:
³ Isaiah 66:5
⁴ Isaiah ibid.


###### Kuntres HaHitpa'alut 26:6
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ויש כיתות שנקראים צבועים וחנפים ושקרנים כו׳ שאין בזה שום כוונה רצוייה מעצמיות דנפש האלקית בגילוי, רק עם כל זה בבחינת העלם גדול יש בזה מבחינת אלקות דנפש האלקית.

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, the Neirot Foundation, 2024:**
Moreover, there are those who are in the categories of hypocrites, flatterers and liars etc., in whom there is no proper motivation that stems from the essence of the Divine soul in a revealed way, albeit, there is something of the Godliness of the Divine soul in them, in an aspect of great concealment only.


###### Kuntres HaHitpa'alut 26:7
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וראיה כאשר יבוא עליו בטושים גדולים ויסורים וצער דסליק נהורא דנשמתא ויבכה כו׳ (וכמו שיתבאר בסמוך בענין בעלי תשובה ביום הכיפורים כו׳). מה שאין כן בעובדי כוכבים.

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, the Neirot Foundation, 2024:**
Evidence of this is that when great rebuke, troubles and suffering befall such a person, the light of the soul descends upon him and he weeps tears of regret over his sins (this will soon be explained in relation to penitents on the day of Atonement). None of this is true of idolaters.


###### Kuntres HaHitpa'alut 26:8
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וראיה מביטוש דמשה שאמר להם פנו וסעו לכם כו׳ שחזרו בהם ואמרו חטאנו.

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, the Neirot Foundation, 2024:**
Other evidence is that when Moshe rebuked them and said, “Turn and go on your way⁵ etc.,” they repented and confessed, saying, “We have sinned.”

footnotes:
⁵ Deuteronomy 1:7


###### Kuntres HaHitpa'alut 26:9
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וכן ממה שגט המעושה בישראל כשר

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, the Neirot Foundation, 2024:**
Further proof is that a Jewish bill of divorce is valid even when given under duress, when it is done under the compulsion of the Jewish rabbinical court.


###### Kuntres HaHitpa'alut 26:10
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וכן כופין וממשכנין על הצדקה וכהאי גוונא וכמו שמבואר במקום אחר

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, the Neirot Foundation, 2024:**
Additional proof comes from the fact that the court can compel people to give charity and that it may be taken by force of lien and the like, as explained elsewhere.⁶

footnotes:
⁶ These two cases regarding the rabbinical court are only possible because, deep down, in his Divine soul, a Jew desires to do HaShem’s will as ruled by the rabbinic court.


###### Kuntres HaHitpa'alut 26:11
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(וכמו המצות סוכה דלעתיד שיבחנו בנקודה זו ישראל ועובדי כוכבים, והוא דעובדי כוכבים יבעטו וישראל לא יבעטו,

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, the Neirot Foundation, 2024:**
(Similarly, in the future, both Jews and idolaters will be tested on this point through the precept of Sukkah. [*HaShem*-יהו"ה will cause an unbearable heat wave which will make it impossible to stay in the Sukkah.] The idolaters will kick their Sukkoth out of frustration, whereas the Jews will not.


###### Kuntres HaHitpa'alut 26:12
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כי הנפש האלקית עיקר רצונו רק לעשות רצון האלקי מצד עצמו כנזכר לעיל וכשמצטער פטור ולא מבעט כלל שהרי אין זה רצון האלקי,

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, the Neirot Foundation, 2024:**
The reason is because the sole desire of the Divine soul, in and of itself, is just to do *HaShem’s*-יהו"ה will, as mentioned above. Since one is exempt from performing the precept of Sukkah when it becomes unbearable to do so, the Jew will not kick it out of frustration at all, because he realizes that it is not *HaShem’s*-יהו"ה will, which is his only concern.


###### Kuntres HaHitpa'alut 26:13
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מה שאין כן עובדי כוכבים שאין כוונתם רק רצון עצמם כו׳. למען שמי דוקא יכבד ה׳ כו׳ ודי למבין).

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, the Neirot Foundation, 2024:**
On the other hand, the only motivation of the idolaters is gratification of their own desires, as in the verse, “For the sake of my reputation” – specifically – “will *HaShem*-יהו"ה be glorified etc.”⁷ This is sufficient for those of understanding).

footnotes:
⁷ Isaiah 66:5


###### Kuntres HaHitpa'alut 26:14
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ופרטי חילוקים יש בזה הרבה מאד אך לא ניתן לכתוב כי ממילא מובן כו׳. וכל אחד יודע היטיב בנפשו ואין צריך לדבר מזה כלל.

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, the Neirot Foundation, 2024:**
There are very many distinctions here which will not be committed to writing because they are self-evident. Since each person knows his own soul best, it is altogether unnecessary to address this.