Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 196

Is Fear Directed Toward the Creator?

Fear is a correction applied to the vessel of the will to receive so that it is aimed in order to bestow. Fear is an attitude toward the Giver. There is an attitude toward the Giver that expresses concern: perhaps He will not give to me. Also, there is an attitude that expresses concern: perhaps I will not give to Him.

The former is egoistic, corporeal fear that belongs to the level of this world; it is the fear that the Creator might not provide me, in this life, with what I need. After that, we come to true fear, to a genuine attitude toward the Creator, not the concern that the Creator will not give to me, but the concern that I might not be able to give to Him.

Fear is the correction of the vessel, and joy is the filling of the vessel.

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