{"id":11492,"date":"2025-12-10T21:38:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=11492"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:38:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:38:19","slug":"you-shall-not-make-for-yourself","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/you-shall-not-make-for-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"You Shall Not Make for Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>427) \u201cYou shall not make for yourself an idol or any likeness.\u201d Any form of a face is permitted to make, except for the face of a man because the face of a man governs everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>428) \u201cYou shall not make for yourself an idol or any likeness\u201d is as is written, \u201cDo not let your speech cause you to sin.\u201d One should be so careful with words of Torah, and one should be so careful not to err in them and utter a word of Torah that he does not know, and which he did not receive from his teacher. Anyone who says words of Torah that he does not know or did not receive from his teacher, it is written about him, \u201cYou shall not make for yourself an idol or any likeness.\u201d The Creator will avenge him in the next world. When his soul wishes to come into her place, she will be rejected outside and will be abolished from that place, which is bundled in the bundle of life of the rest of the souls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>429) It is written, \u201cWhy should God be angry with your voice?\u201d \u201cYour voice\u201d is man\u2019s soul. It is written about it, \u201cFor the Lord your God is a jealous God,\u201d since He is jealous for His name in everything, whether He is jealous for His name because of the form of the face or because he lies in His name, or because of the Torah that he says, which he does not know or did not receive from his teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>430) The whole Torah is a holy name, for there is nothing in the Torah that is not included in the holy name. Hence, we must be careful not to err in His holy name and not lie with it. One who lies with the upper King is not admitted into the King\u2019s palace and will be abolished from the next world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>431) It is written, \u201cYou shall not make for yourself an idol or any likeness.\u201d It is also written, \u201cCut out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones,\u201d meaning do not make an image, that is, do not make for yourself another law, which you did not know and which your teacher did not tell you, \u201cFor I the Lord your God am a jealous God.\u201d I am the one who will avenge you in the next world. When the soul wishes to come before Me, she will be so lied to, and she will be admitted into Hell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>432) \u201cYou shall not make for yourself an idol.\u201d One must not lie in the name of the Creator, since the first knot by which Israel tied to the Creator was when they were circumcised. 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