{"id":7939,"date":"2025-11-11T21:46:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T21:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=7939"},"modified":"2025-11-11T21:46:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T21:46:03","slug":"blessings-are-upon-the-head-of-the-righteous","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/blessings-are-upon-the-head-of-the-righteous\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessings Are Upon the Head of the Righteous"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>323) It is written, \u201cBlessings are upon the head of the righteous.\u201d Should it not have said, \u201cTo the righteous\u201d? However, the head of the righteous is the holy crown, Ateret Yesod. The head of the righteous is Jacob, Tifferet, and Guf [body]. He is called \u201cthe head of the righteous\u201d because he receives the blessings and imparts them upon the righteous, to Yesod, who is called \u201crighteous,\u201d and from there they are thrown to all directions\u2014right and left in Malchut\u2014and all the worlds are blessed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>324) \u201cBlessings are upon the head of the righteous\u201d means the place of the covenant called \u201crighteous\u201d that springs come out of it. It is like the hole in the pitcher through which the wine is poured. The head of the pitcher is like the head of the righteous. When He throws fountains to the Nukva, that place is called \u201cthe head of the righteous.\u201d The righteous is the head because all the blessings are in it and are given abundance from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>325) A man who has been rewarded with keeping the holy covenant, who keeps the Mitzvot [commandments] of the Torah is called \u201crighteous.\u201d He is righteous from head to toe. It is written about him, \u201cBlessings are upon the head of the righteous,\u201d since when the blessings are extended to the world, they are on his head and from him are the blessings in the world, in the holy and righteous sons that he begets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>323) It is written, \u201cBlessings are upon the head of the righteous.\u201d Should it not have said, \u201cTo the righteous\u201d? 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