692. As long as the body does not rest in its place in the grave, his soul, too, has no rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
693. One day, Rabbi Perahia was walking in the field, and found one dead body under a carob tree. He looked at it, and found that he was a Jew, and found wrappings of commandment, Tefillin, and a book of the [Passover] Haggadah was with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
694. He said, \u201cHe must be a disciple of the wise.\u201d He tried to bury him, and he went to the city and fixed shrouds [coverings for the dead] for him, and a grave, and took people as witnesses, and wept over him, and tried to do everything for him, and spent on him all that he had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
695. When that body was concealed and buried, his soul went up to the high seminary. She was told, \u201cNow you have no permission to enter here, in the place of the high rock, Malchut. Go and pay for the act of Hesed [kindness] to the one who completed you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
696. One day, Rabbi Perahia was sitting at the gate of Lod, and he was sad for he was pressed for time. A man approached him and said to him, \u201cRabbi, would you like to go to a certain place? I will give you vessels of silver so we will exert together in Torah along the way.\u201d He told him, \u201cLet us go.\u201d They went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said to him, \u201cRabbi, why is it written, \u2018For the living know that they will die, and the dead know nothing\u2019?\u201d He said to him, \u201cThe living are the righteous, and the dead are the wicked.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
697. He said to him, \u201cIndeed Rabbi, even the wicked know in that world about their own affliction, and know about the honor of the righteous and the judgments of the wicked, thus, what is \u2018And the dead know nothing?\u2019 for it means that the wicked do not know anything.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
698. He said to him, \u201cIt is written in this world that the righteous ,who are called \u2018living,\u2019 look and know that they will die, and are destined to be sentenced, that there is a judgment, and there is a judge, as it is written, \u2018And the living shall lay it to his heart.\u2019 But the wicked, who are called \u2018dead,\u2019 do not know, do not notice, and do not observe the actions of that world at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd one who does not know the actions of that world is called \u2018dead\u2019 because this world is not from among the living, for the life of this world is not regarded as life. Rather, the life of the next world is regarded as \u2018life,\u2019 since that world is for souls and spirits, which do not die, and this world is for the body, which will eventually die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
699. \u201cIn that world, where spirits of people dwell, they are similar in shape to the shape they had in this world, they know each other and what is destined to be in the world, and they try to know the name of the glory of their master when they are clothed in the garment of that world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
700. When he reached that field, that man told him, \u201cLet us wait now.\u201d He sighed. Rabbi Perahia said to him, \u201cWhy are you sighing?\u201d He told him, \u201cI lost something in this place.\u201d Rabbi Perahia said, \u201cThe Creator will find it for you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
701. They found a cave. That man said, \u201cRabbi, let us go in here, for I know and I recognize the place here.\u201d They went in, climbed down stairs until they reached an orchard where they saw trees that were very different from each other and from the rest of the trees in the world, and one tree different from the other trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
702. They went up there. They heard the noise of many camps saying, \u201cLet us bow and kneel before the Lord our Maker.\u201d Rabbi Perahia was surprised and said, \u201cWhat is that?\u201d He said to him, \u201cBe quiet!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
703. Rabbi Perahia said, \u201cI swear to God that when I came with him to the middle of the orchard, I saw two roads, and camps on either side. I told him, \u201cWhat is that?\u201d He said to me, \u201cThis is the crossroads of the souls, those who go to the Garden of Eden, and those who go to Hell. The one who goes to the Garden of Eden, these camps of angels go with her and complete her in peace. The one who goes to Hell, those camps take her to sentence her in Hell.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
704. We crossed that orchard and reached walls and towers and gates. When we got to one gate called the \u201cgate of the east,\u201d the man called \u201cOpen for me the gates of justice.\u201d They said to him, \u201cWhy?\u201d He said to them, \u201cI come on a mission from the Master of the World.\u201d They all opened and said, \u201cWho placed a woman born in this place?\u201d He said to them, \u201cThis is Rabbi Perahia.\u201d They said, \u201cIs he the one who dealt Hesed with you in that world?\u201d He said, \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
705. They opened for him and said, \u201cUndress him,\u201d for it is forbidden to come here in a body of that world. They promptly undressed him and he wore the airs of the garden from within.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
692. As long as the body does not rest in its place in the grave, his soul, too, has no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":15114,"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":[28],"class_list":["post-15355","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-zohar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n