{"id":13830,"date":"2026-01-06T15:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=13830"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:32:12","slug":"fear","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Fear\u2014the First Commandment<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Introduction of The Book of Zohar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>189) \u201cIn the beginning God created.\u201d This is the first&nbsp;<em>Mitzva<\/em>&nbsp;(commandment). This&nbsp;<em>Mitzva<\/em>&nbsp;is called \u201cfear of the Creator,\u201d called&nbsp;<em>Resheet<\/em>&nbsp;(beginning), as it is written, \u201cFear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.\u201d Fear of the Creator is the beginning of knowledge because this fear is called \u201cbeginning.\u201d And this is the gate that leads to faith. And the whole world exists on this&nbsp;<em>Mitzva<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>190) Fear is interpreted by three discernments, two of which have no proper root, and one is the root of fear. There is a man who fears the Creator so that his children may live and not die, or fears bodily punishment or punishment through money, hence he always fears Him. It follows that the fear he fears the Creator is not placed as the root because his own benefit is the root, and the fear is a result of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And there is a person who fears the Creator because he is afraid of a punishment in that world, and the punishment of Hell. These two fears\u2014the fear of punishment in this world and in the next world\u2014are not the essence of the fear and its root.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>191) The real fear is when one fears one\u2019s Master because He is great and ruling, the essence and the root of all the worlds, and all else is nothing compared to Him.<a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Lord Is My Light and My Salvation; Whom Shall I Fear?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>BaMidbar<\/em>&nbsp;[In the Desert]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>39) \u201cThe Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?\u201d Since Adam gazed in the upper light and the Creator shone upon him, he fears neither upper ones nor lower ones, as it is written, \u201cBut upon thee the Lord will arise, and His glory shall be seen upon thee.\u201d \u201cThe Lord is the stronghold of my life.\u201d When the Creator holds a person, he does not fear all the litigants in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fear\u2014the First Commandment Introduction of The Book of Zohar 189) \u201cIn the beginning God created.\u201d This is the first&nbsp;Mitzva&nbsp;(commandment). 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