{"id":11653,"date":"2025-12-11T18:19:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T18:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=11653"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:59:14","slug":"any-person-who-is-favored","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/any-person-who-is-favored\/","title":{"rendered":"271. Any Person Who Is Favored"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Any person who is favored, it is known that he has fear of heaven, as was said, \u201cAnd the mercy of the Lord from the world onto the world is upon those who fear Him\u201d (<em>Sukkah<\/em>&nbsp;49). We should ask, for we see that there are many righteous ones who people hate. And vise-versa, there are many secular people and transgressors who are liked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can interpret this through ethics. Our sages teach a person how to measure so he will know if he has fear of heaven or not, as it is written, \u201cOne should know in one\u2019s soul whether or not he is a complete righteous\u201d (<em>Berachot<\/em>&nbsp;61b).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, he was given a sign: If the Creator favors him, it is certain that he, too, favors the Creator. It is as Baal HaSulam said about what Moses said, \u201cIf I am favored in Your eyes.\u201d He asked how Moses knew that the Creator favored him, and he replied that since Moses saw that he favored the Creator, it must be that the Creator favored Moses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a rule from the Baal Shem Tov, \u201cThe Lord is your shade,\u201d meaning however a person walks with the Creator, so the Creator walks with man. 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