{"id":11629,"date":"2025-12-11T16:36:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T16:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=11629"},"modified":"2025-12-11T16:36:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T16:36:28","slug":"keep-away-from-a-false-matter","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/keep-away-from-a-false-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Away from a False Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>436) \u201cKeep away from a false matter, and do not kill the clean and the righteous.\u201d It is a&nbsp;<em>Mitzva<\/em>&nbsp;[commandment] to equalize the litigators and to keep away from a false matter, so they will not say that there is bias in the matter. This is so because it is written of the Creator, \u201cWho does not show partiality nor take a bribe.\u201d At the ends of the letters there is one. This judge should be like the one who is one&nbsp;<em>HaVaYaH<\/em>, who will not take a bribe, meaning be in His form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>437) Similarly, in judging, the two litigators should be equalized as one so the judgment will not lean toward one more than toward the other. Rather, they will be of equal weight until they accept the judgment. Afterwards, each is judged according to his actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>438) A righteous is judged by the good inclination. A wicked is judged by the evil inclination. An intermediate, both judge him. One who is from the tree of life, which is extended from&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>, is not judged at all, for he has no evil inclination. He is a complete righteous. This is, \u201cA righteous who is happy.\u201d And there is no good except the Torah, as it is written, \u201cFor I give you good doctrine; do not forsake My teaching.\u201d And a righteous who is suffering is from the tree of knowledge of good and evil,&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>. He is called \u201crighteous\u201d although he is suffering, which is the evil inclination. But because the good inclination governs him, he is called \u201cA righteous who is suffering,\u201d for he suffers under its authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>439) A wicked who is happy. The Torah is called \u201cgood.\u201d He is called \u201cevil\u201d because he rose to being a&nbsp;<em>Rosh<\/em>&nbsp;in his evil inclination, and the good is under his dominion as a slave under his master. And even though a wicked is crowning the righteous, and a complete righteous can punish him, it is written, \u201cIt is not good to punish the righteous, too,\u201d for because that good one is under the feet of the wicked, he must not be punished, for perhaps he will repent and overcome his inclination, and the evil inclination will be dust under his feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>440) From the perspective of a wicked who is happy, the Shechina lays, as it is written, \u201cAnd uncovered his feet and lay down.\u201d This is as it is written, \u201cAnd a maidservant that is heir to her mistress.\u201d A maidservant is the female of the evil inclination. The evil inclination is a male, of whom it is written, \u201cI will not give My honor to another,\u201d and it is written, \u201cBut the stranger who comes near shall be put to death,\u201d since the evil inclination is called \u201cother\u201d and called \u201cstranger.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>441) On the part of the righteous who is suffering, the Shechina is a crown on a man\u2019s head, and the maidservant, the evil inclination, surrenders under her mistress. And on the part of the complete righteous, there are neither foreigner nor evil inclination. And on the part of the complete wicked, he has no part in the Shechina, for man has no part of the Shechina except on the part of the good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>442) The Divinities are not the same because the Shechina of the tree of knowledge of good and evil is a throne in the world of&nbsp;<em>Beria<\/em>&nbsp;or in man\u2019s body. But the Shechina of the tree of life is in the world of&nbsp;<em>Atzilut<\/em>. It is written about her, \u201cEvil shall not dwell with you.\u201d But because it is written in regard to her, \u201cAnd His kingdom rules over all,\u201d one who flaws her place in&nbsp;<em>Beria<\/em>&nbsp;or in man\u2019s body, it is regarded as though he has disgraced the queen herself, in&nbsp;<em>Atzilut<\/em>, for the disgrace of the queen is one who has contempt for her place. Also, scorn for the queen is scorn for the King,&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>, thus he flaws&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>443) It is even more so for one who removes her from her place in&nbsp;<em>Beria<\/em>, and places a maidservant in her place. This is because in every place that he flaws, the queen is not present, but the maidservant, who is flawed and dwells in a flawed place. And man\u2019s flaw due to his iniquities flaws all of his organs until the queen finds no place to dwell there. Thus, he cannot be corrected until he reinstalls her over all his organs, when he repents on all his iniquities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>444) Rabbi Shimon said, \u201cMoses, this is why you establish in this composition of the 248&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>, to enthrone the Creator over all the organs of the Shechina in each&nbsp;<em>Mitzva<\/em>, and you have no concern for your own honor. Happy are you, for as you enthrone the Creator over all the organs of the Shechina, who are the virtuous ones in all of Israel\u2014for the virtuous ones are the organs of the Shechina\u2014so the Creator works to instill His name over you and will enthrone you over all the camps above and below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>436) \u201cKeep away from a false matter, and do not kill the clean and the righteous.\u201d It is a&nbsp;Mitzva&nbsp;[commandment] to 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