When sweeting of Din is accomplished through the pain of having sinned exemplified in Malchut, or the admitting of wrongdoing and Viduy of Hod, or being God-fearing and overcoming the desire to sin of Gevurah, there remains room for the Klipot (forces of impurity) to take hold. This results from the fact that all of the above have the tendency to cause a person to draw into himself and to feel down about himself. One who feels knocked down tends to want to be alone and doesn't feel comfortable relating to others in a happy and loving manner. After confessing his sins a person may feel embarrassed and not show a shining face towards others. One whose sins have left him gripped with fear may feel an overpowering sense of seriousness that makes it difficult for him to smile at others.
The bottom line is that as long as a person remains within the left-side middos which emanate from Gevurah it is difficult for him to incorporate also the right-side of kindness, love, smile, connection, unity. He wants to be alone as Gevurah is the essence of separating things so that each thing stands alone. In these situations a person is not avoןding others because of evil Gevurot - there is no anger, hubris, stinginess or related traits. Those are perversions of the left-side and the distancing that results from them is negative, distorted and misguided. In this case the distancing is resulting from the good middot of Teshuva and correction. Despite this, as he is still rooted in the left-side his heart is connected to Gevurah, separation, and does not find itself whole and complete and incorporating Chesed and the light of unity, love and connection.
Therefore, even though these are all necessary Middot in the process of Teshuva and purification, they will not come to their completion until one joins to them the higher level of Binah the root of joy as we will explain next.
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The bottom line is that as long as a person remains within the left-side middos which emanate from Gevurah it is difficult for him to incorporate also the right-side of kindness, love, smile, connection, unity. He wants to be alone as Gevurah is the essence of separating things so that each thing stands alone. In these situations a person is not avoןding others because of evil Gevurot - there is no anger, hubris, stinginess or related traits. Those are perversions of the left-side and the distancing that results from them is negative, distorted and misguided. In this case the distancing is resulting from the good middot of Teshuva and correction. Despite this, as he is still rooted in the left-side his heart is connected to Gevurah, separation, and does not find itself whole and complete and incorporating Chesed and the light of unity, love and connection.
Therefore, even though these are all necessary Middot in the process of Teshuva and purification, they will not come to their completion until one joins to them the higher level of Binah the root of joy as we will explain next.
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