The Space Between Action and Result
- טלי לוי. טאל סטוביק Taly Levi. Tal Stoobik
- May 10
- 2 min read
Updated: May 11
A few years ago, I bought a gift for a relative — a pair of workout tights. A small, everyday, almost meaningless gift. Years later, she told me that those workout tights were what pushed her to start going to the gym, exercising, and meeting new friends.
This story and her words profoundly changed my consciousness. I suddenly realized that sometimes we do a small, incidental action that affects someone else, and we don’t even know it. Sometimes, even a small act that we do without paying attention can ignite an entire process in someone else.
Later, when I was exposed to Kabbalah studies, I encountered the idea of cause and effect. A law that says you reap what you sow. Not every seed germinates immediately – sometimes it takes hours, days, months, years, or even entire life cycles. But every seed of love, encouragement, and generosity carries with it the possibility of growing. And if you sow love, love will grow.
In Kabbalah, the entire world operates according to spiritual laws of cause and effect. There is nothing accidental – every thought, word, or action that a person does is a seed, and it will bring a corresponding result at some stage, even if it is not immediately visible.
According to Kabbalah, when a person “sows” a good deed, even a small one, he plants positive energy in reality. That energy will grow and return to him in the future, in the same essence. For example, if a person helps another out of love, they will be loved in return. If a person acts out of selfishness, the fruits he will reap will also be accordingly.
Kabbalah explains that every thought, word, deed is a seed, and that like attracts like – what you sow, is what will grow. The uniqueness of the Kabbalistic view is the understanding that time is not always immediate – sometimes the reward will be seen after weeks, months, or even an entire lifetime. Nevertheless, every seed that is sown acts and impacts reality.
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