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55. The Creator praises in the Torah and says, “Walk in My ways and engage in My work, and I will bring you to good worlds, to upper worlds.” People who do not know and do not believe and do not look, the Creator tells them, “Go and spy on the good world, the nice, upper world.” They reply, “How can we spy on it and know all that?”

56. The Creator tells them, “Go up into the Negev and go up into the hill country, and see what the land is, and whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak.” “Go up into the Negev” means delve in Torah, and see that it stands before you, and from it you will know that world. “And see what the land is,” meaning that from that world, see that world that is an inheritance and a portion into which I bring you. “And whether the people who dwell in it” are the righteous in the Garden of Eden, standing row after row in the upper glory of the high degrees.

57. “Whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many.” In it, you will see if you are rewarded with all that because they ‎overcame their inclination by strength and broke it, or by weakness, without effort. Or, if ‎they were strengthened themselves in the Torah, to engage in it day and night, or left it and were still ‎rewarded with all that. “Whether they are many” means if many who engage in My ‎work and strengthen themselves in the Torah are rewarded with all that or not.

58. “And what is the land, is it fat or slim?” You will know what the land is in the Torah. “What is that world,” if the upper good is abundant in it for its inhabitants, or whether anything is lacking in it. “Is there a tree in it, or is there not?” Is there the tree of life in it, ZA, and forever and ever? Or, is there the bundle of life there, Yesod, or not?