...and this is the root cause of why in some cases the righteous enjoy a good life while in other cases they suffer. On that level there is a logically necessary reason why one righteous individual may have a good life while another suffers. This is the concept of “the fortune (מזל, mazal) of the hour” that affects people’s destiny, for this depends on the individual root of the soul but not its individual root in Atzilut. (The Mazal – the soul’s share in the overall service – depends upon the interconnections of MaH and BaN that are rooted in the Unknown Head, but not upon Atzilut, where the service is founded on the principle of merit, reward and punishment.)