{"id":13050,"date":"2025-12-22T15:02:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T15:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=13050"},"modified":"2025-12-22T15:02:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T15:02:18","slug":"passing-the-dead-before-the-bride","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/passing-the-dead-before-the-bride\/","title":{"rendered":"644. Passing the Dead before the Bride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our sages said, \u201cPassing the dead before the bride, and both before the king of Israel\u201d (<em>Ketubot<\/em>&nbsp;17a).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We should ask about this in ethics. This phrase shows us the order of the work of the Creator:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) First, we must remove the bad that is within man\u2019s heart. This is as in \u201cThe wicked in their lives are called \u2018dead.\u2019\u201d Therefore, the bad is regarded as dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2) Then we go to the bride. The bride is called&nbsp;<em>Shechina<\/em>&nbsp;[Divinity], as it is written, \u201cGo my beloved, toward the bride.\u201d This pertains to faith, since before we remove the bad, we cannot be rewarded with faith, which is called \u201cbride.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3) \u201cBoth before the king of Israel.\u201d This is the Torah, for the Torah is called \u201cking,\u201d and faith is called \u201ckingdom of heaven\u201d or \u201cfear of heaven,\u201d which means accepting the burden of the kingdom of heaven, for only after we are rewarded with receiving the&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;[kingdom] can we be rewarded with the Torah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, we should interpret in another way, according to the order of the preparation for the work of the Creator. At that time, the order is 1) Torah, called \u201cking of Israel,\u201d 2) bride, called \u201cfaith,\u201d and 3) we go and bury the dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the order of preparation, when we begin the work of the Creator, we must begin with the Torah, meaning to learn Torah. When we begin, we must begin in&nbsp;<em>Lo<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Lishma<\/em>&nbsp;[not for Her sake], and from&nbsp;<em>Lo<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Lishma<\/em>&nbsp;we come to&nbsp;<em>Lishma<\/em>&nbsp;[for Her sake], since the light in it reforms him. Afterward, when he learns Torah with the aim that the Torah will reform him, he is rewarded with faith, since faith is regarded as good, and its opposite is bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Subsequently, once he has been rewarded with faith, he can extract the dead from within him, for then he can bury the dead within him, as our sages said (Shabbat [Sabbath] 105b), \u201cWhich is a foreign God that is in a man\u2019s body? 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