{"id":7934,"date":"2025-11-11T21:37:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T21:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=7934"},"modified":"2025-11-11T21:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T21:37:58","slug":"death-and-the-shadow-of-death","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/death-and-the-shadow-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Death and the Shadow of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>286) \u201cHave the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?\u201d This is what the Creator said to Job when he was afflicting himself over the Creator\u2019s judgments [judgments]. Job said, \u201cThough He slay me, I will hope for Him.\u201d He also said, \u201cIf he slew him, he will not hope for him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>287) The Creator told him, \u201cBut do I kill people?\u201d \u201cHave the gates of death been revealed unto you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?\u201d Several gates are open on that side, by which they can be saved from death, but still death governs them. However, they are all hidden from people and they do not know of those gates. In the future, when the words, \u201cAnd the whole earth shall be full of the knowledge,\u201d he will say in truth, \u201cDeath shall be swallowed up forever.\u201d It turns out that they are dying because they do not know how to beware, and it is not the Creator who kills them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>288) \u201cHave you seen the gates of the shadow of death?\u201d Death and the shadow of death are as one, male and female in a single coupling. Death is the angel of death, the serpent, a female. The shadow of death is the letters of shadow and death, the one who rides the death, SAM, who rides the serpent. It is his shadow and his strength, to make a coupling together in one knot, and they are one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>289) All the degrees that come out of them and connect to those ZON of the shell are their gates, as above in Kedusha [holiness], as it is written, \u201cLift up your heads, O gates.\u201d Those are the ones who are called \u201crivers\u201d and \u201cstreams,\u201d the Yesodot [foundations] of VAK of the world, which are ZON of Kedusha. Here, too, the gates of death and the gates of the shadow of death from the Sitra Achra are degrees of them, which govern the world. The gates of death and the gates of the shadow of death are female and male that cling to each other as one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>290) Hence, in response to what Job said, \u201cAs the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, he that goes down to the grave shall come up no more,\u201d the Creator told him, \u201cHave you seen the gates of the shadow of death,\u201d to know that they are all in My domain and all will be swallowed up from the world, as it is written, \u201cAnd death shall be swallowed up forever?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>286) \u201cHave the gates of death been revealed to you? 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