{"id":12523,"date":"2025-12-17T14:17:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=12523"},"modified":"2025-12-17T14:17:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:17:05","slug":"a-shoe-for-his-foot","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/a-shoe-for-his-foot\/","title":{"rendered":"431. A Shoe for His Foot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThat shoe places\u2026 Hence, everything that the dead gives to a person in a dream is good. But if he took an object from the house, it is bad, such as taking his shoe. What is the reason? It indicates that he has moved his leg\u201d (<em>The Zohar<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Hukat<\/em>, Item 8).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We should interpret that \u201cdead\u201d means the will to receive. All the efforts he makes in the work for&nbsp;<em>Kedusha<\/em>&nbsp;[holiness] are because the will to receive gives the strength to bestow. But if the will to receive takes, it is bad because there are only two domains: the domain of bestowal or the domain of reception. Reception is called \u201cdeath\u201d and bestowal is called \u201clife,\u201d since by this we adhere to the Life of Lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence, if the dead takes, it means that he takes forces from the domain of bestowal and transfers them to the domain of the&nbsp;<em>Sitra<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Achra<\/em>&nbsp;[other side]. And the reason he says precisely \u201cshoe\u201d is that&nbsp;<em>Naal<\/em>&nbsp;[shoe] comes from the word&nbsp;<em>Man\u2019ul<\/em>&nbsp;[lock], namely a place that should be locked from the external mind. Instead, it should be in the manner of faith above reason. The dead takes this shoe and wants it to be open so that the intellect will permeate it and make its inquiries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the meaning of the shoe being specifically on the feet, since&nbsp;<em>Raglaim<\/em>&nbsp;[legs] comes from the word&nbsp;<em>Meraglim<\/em>&nbsp;[spies]. In that place\u2014in the Providence of the Creator\u2014we must go with faith above reason, meaning there must be a shoe on one\u2019s foot, a prohibition to enter with the intellect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the will to receive, which is called \u201cdead,\u201d takes it, it means that he has entered the domain of the&nbsp;<em>Sitra<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Achra<\/em>. This is the meaning of \u201cDo not inquire in that which is beyond you.\u201d Only in this manner do we adhere to the Life of Lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is when the dead takes him. But when the live one removes his shoe and gives it to another, to keep the possession, he affects the decree of above\u201d (Item 9). That is, if a person takes off his shoe and wants to know and understand with his intellect not because he wants to walk in the ways of the external intellect, but in order to see Providence, how it is hidden from him, and that he is full of contradictions to the external mind, and he does it in order to keep the possession, meaning for his faith to be sustainable, then he will be able to do everything by the decree of above. In other words, he will be able to observe the Torah and&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>&nbsp;[commandments] as a constitution, which is \u201cI have given a decree and you have no permission to doubt it\u201d or comprehended with the intellect. Instead, he should accept everything with faith above reason, meaning understand that faith contradicts reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If he has no reason that will understand otherwise, it is not regarded as \u201cagainst reason,\u201d but rather this, too, is regarded as \u201cwithin reason.\u201d But when he takes off the shoe and spies there to see what the intellect has to say about such places where the intellect sees otherwise than faith, then faith lies over the \u201cagainst reason.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet, this is called \u201csimple faith,\u201d for only simple faith obligates him to be a servant of the Creator and not the intellect. 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