{"id":14359,"date":"2026-01-09T21:15:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=14359"},"modified":"2026-01-09T21:15:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:15:02","slug":"a-lot","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/a-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"828. A Lot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cAnd He chose David His servant, and took him from the flock folds\u201d (Psalms 78).&nbsp;<em>Michlaot<\/em>&nbsp;[folds] comes from the word&nbsp;<em>Maachal<\/em>&nbsp;[food].&nbsp;<em>Tzon<\/em>&nbsp;[flock] means&nbsp;<em>Yetziot<\/em>&nbsp;[exits]. That is, He took David to be a king because his food consisted of many descents, called \u201cexits.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom behind the nursing ewes, He brought him to shepherd Jacob.\u201d From behind the ascents [sounds similar to \u201cewes\u201d in Hebrew], meaning from states when he was after the ascents, meaning from the descents. \u201cTo shepherd Jacob,\u201d \u201cshepherd\u201d from the word \u201cbad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Akev<\/em>&nbsp;[heel] means \u201cend,\u201d and is discerned as&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, which is called \u201cfaith.\u201d That means that from what was after the ascents, meaning from the descents, from the states, he shepherds his faith. 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