{"id":11628,"date":"2025-12-11T16:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T16:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=11628"},"modified":"2025-12-11T16:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T16:35:06","slug":"you-shall-not-follow-the-masses-in-doing-evil","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/you-shall-not-follow-the-masses-in-doing-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"You Shall Not Follow the Masses in Doing Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>429) \u201cYou shall not follow the masses in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after a multitude in order to pervert.\u201d \u201cTurn aside after a multitude in order to pervert.\u201d There is no multitude of less than three. If there are no court of three, it is forbidden to follow its sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court is the Shechina. Three are the three animals of her&nbsp;<em>Merkava<\/em>&nbsp;[chariot\/assembly],&nbsp;<em>HGT<\/em>. The Shechina is called \u201cthe law of Torah,\u201d the true law, where the middle pillar,&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>, is called \u201ctruth,\u201d and the Shechina is his judgment. Any judge that does not judge truthfully, it is as though he made&nbsp;<em>SAM<\/em>&nbsp;govern the world, as it is written, \u201cAnd truth shall be cast to the ground,\u201d meaning&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>, who drops the Shechina with him. He raises Hell,&nbsp;<em>SAM<\/em>\u2019s partner, along with&nbsp;<em>SAM<\/em>. In a place of true judgment, He establishes the language of falsehood. A true judgment is the middle pillar, the language of deceit, Hell, and&nbsp;<em>SAM<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>430) For this reason, when the judge judges, Hell is open before him on the left, who is&nbsp;<em>SAM\u2019s<\/em>&nbsp;mate, and a sword is on his throat, which is the angel of death.&nbsp;<em>SAM<\/em>&nbsp;is behind the neck, the Garden of Eden is open to his right, and the tree of life is open before him on his head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>431) If he sentences falsely, the angel of death governs him and slaughters him, then burns him in Hell. If he sentences truthfully, the Creator brings him to the Garden of Eden and gives him a taste of the tree of life, of which it is written, \u201cAnd he shall take also of the tree of life and eat and live forever.\u201d It is the \u201cforever\u201d that is created in the Torah, of which it is written, \u201cShe is a tree of life to them who hold her.\u201d The tree of life is&nbsp;<em>Tifferet<\/em>, and his life is&nbsp;<em>HB<\/em>, the life of the King.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>432) The sentence of&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;is always judgment. The judgment is in the heart, for \u201cThe heart sees.\u201d This is why the judge has only what his eyes see. Also, there is no judge but the Creator, what His eyes see, \u201cFor the eyes of the Lord wander,\u201d His eyes are on the ways of a man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>433) \u201cWatching through the windows\u201d means through man\u2019s seven holes: the two eyes, the two ears, the two holes of the nose, and the mouth, thus the seven&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;of upper&nbsp;<em>Ima<\/em>. This is how He looks at his ways with seven, from the perspective of the lower Shechina: with the two hands and the neck, which are three, with a body and a covenant, which are&nbsp;<em>Tifferet<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Yesod<\/em>, which are five, and with two legs, thus seven. These are the seven&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;of the lower Shechina: the two letters of the name&nbsp;<em>Yod<\/em>&#8211;<em>Hey<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>GAR<\/em>, with the filling of&nbsp;<em>Yod<\/em>&#8211;<em>Vav<\/em>&#8211;<em>Dalet<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Hey<\/em>&#8211;<em>Aleph<\/em>, which are seven letters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through these seven letters of His, He looks at the seven holes of the head. They are called \u201choles\u201d after the female, upper&nbsp;<em>Ima<\/em>, whose holes are open to receive. The two letters&nbsp;<em>Vav<\/em>&#8211;<em>Hey<\/em>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<em>Guf<\/em>&nbsp;are the lower Shechina, with their letters of filling\u2014<em>Vav<\/em>&#8211;<em>Aleph<\/em>&#8211;<em>Vav<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Hey<\/em>&#8211;<em>Aleph<\/em>. They are seven letters, and in these seven letters of His, He looks at the seven organs below: hands, neck, body, circumcision, and legs, which are the correction of the body, in which there is the making of the&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>434) The wife of&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>, the Shechina, is similar to a body from which the body of the lower man is extended. It is called \u201corgans,\u201d \u201c248 organs,\u201d after the&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>, and it is called \u201cbody\u201d after the Shechina. This is so because on the other side, there is no body but only clothing, which is as it is written, \u201cClothe me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a place where there is no Shechina, it is not considered the body of that lower man, but it is called \u201cman\u2019s clothing,\u201d&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>. The Torah is called \u201cman,\u201d as it is written, \u201cThis is the law [Torah]: should a man die in a tent,\u201d and as it is written, \u201cAs the beauty of man, to dwell in the house.\u201d In a place where there is&nbsp;<em>Mitzva<\/em>, the Shechina, it is called \u201cthe body of the lower man, \u201cman\u2019s body,\u201d like the bodies of laws and sentences, which are the names of the Shechina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>435) A judge, an arbiter, an officer, and a ruler. The Creator is a judge, the middle pillar.&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>&nbsp;from the side of&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, the&nbsp;<em>Mochin<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>GAR<\/em>&nbsp;that extend from&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, which is&nbsp;<em>HaVaYaH<\/em>, is called \u201ca judge.\u201d An arbiter is considered from the side of&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>. An officer is a ruler, as it is written, \u201cAnd Joseph is the ruler.\u201d All the&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;are judges on the part of upper&nbsp;<em>Ima<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, in whom there is the&nbsp;<em>Mochin<\/em>.&nbsp;<em>Tifferet<\/em>, which is extended from her, is a judge, and all the&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;are included in it. 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