{"id":14008,"date":"2026-01-06T17:19:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=14008"},"modified":"2026-01-06T17:19:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:19:34","slug":"a-eulogy","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/a-eulogy\/","title":{"rendered":"737. A Eulogy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our sages said, \u201cAnyone who cries over a&nbsp;<em>Kosher<\/em>&nbsp;[fitting\/worthy] person, all his iniquities are pardoned.\u201d \u201cRabbi Shimon Ben Pazi said, \u2018Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Levi said in the name of Bar Kafra, \u2018Anyone who sheds tears over a&nbsp;<em>Kosher<\/em>&nbsp;person, the Creator counts them and places them in His treasury, as was said, \u2018You have counted my wanderings; put my tears in Your bottle.\u2019\u2019\u2019\u201d (Shabbat [Sabbath] 105b).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We should ask what is the praise that the Creator places in His treasury. The MAHARSHA interpreted about this, that none is more important to the Creator as one who has fear of heaven, since the Creator has nothing in His treasury but fear of heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The verse says, \u201cWhat does the Lord your God ask of you? Only fear.\u201d It follows that one who has fear of heaven no longer lacks anything, and you find that all his iniquities are forgiven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, we find in&nbsp;<em>Berachot<\/em>&nbsp;(p 6b): \u201cRabbi Helbo said, \u2018Rav Huna said, \u2018Anyone who has fear of heaven, his words are heard.\u2019\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We should ask about this, since we see several people with fear of heaven who are admonishing but there is no desire to heed their words. However, we should interpret that this pertains to the person himself, since before one has fear of heaven, man\u2019s organs do not want to obey him, as it is written, \u201cThe wisdom of the poor man is despised and his words are not heeded.\u201d But when he has fear of heaven, all the organs surrender before him, as it is written, \u201cAnd all the peoples of the earth shall see that the name of the Lord is called upon you and they shall fear you,\u201d since man\u2019s organs are called \u201cthe peoples of the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence, there is no dispute with what the other one said. Rather, they are all of one view, that one who sheds tears over a&nbsp;<em>Kosher<\/em>&nbsp;person is rewarded with fear of heaven. Yet, we should understand why this is so. Our sages said, \u201cOne hour of repentance and good deeds in this world is better than all the life of the next world,\u201d since when a person dies he becomes free from the&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>&nbsp;[commandments].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It follows that if we share in the loss that the person lost, that now he cannot do good deeds, and this matter touches our soul to the point where we shed tears, this causes us to truly take upon ourselves the burden of the kingdom of heaven and to be rewarded with pardoning of iniquities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the deceased causing people to come to fear of heaven, it is a great correction for him, since now the deceased cannot do good deeds. But if, by his demise, he causes people to repent, it follows that the deceased has made a great correction called \u201cgood deeds.\u201d This is the meaning of \u201cAnyone who makes the collective cleansed, sin does not come through him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our sages said, \u201cAnyone who cries over a&nbsp;Kosher&nbsp;[fitting\/worthy] person, all his iniquities are pardoned.\u201d \u201cRabbi Shimon Ben Pazi said, \u2018Rabbi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":6246,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"topic":[26],"class_list":["post-14008","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-rabash"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kabbalah | 737. 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