386) \u201cAnd Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord.\u201d One should pray only next to a wall and nothing should part between him and the wall. All the others who prayed, it is not written about them, \u201cHe turned his face to the wall.\u201d It was enough to say, \u201cAnd he prayed to the Lord.\u201d One who prays a prayer, properly aims his mind even when he does not turn his face to the wall, as it is written about Moses, \u201cAnd he prayed to the Lord.\u201d It is written, \u201cAnd Moses cried out to the Lord,\u201d and it is not written, \u201cAnd he turned his face.\u201d But here, with Hezekiah, why is it written that he turned his face to the wall and then prayed to the Creator?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
387) At the time, Hezekiah was unmarried; he did not have a wife and did not bear sons. It is written, \u201cAnd Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him and said to him, \u2018For you shall die and not live.\u2019\u201d \u201cFor you shall die\u201d in this world, \u201cAnd not live\u201d in the next world because he did not bear sons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
388) Anyone who does not try to bear sons in this world does not persist in the next world and has no share in that world, and his soul is banished in the world and finds no rest anyplace in the world. This is the punishment that is written in the Torah, \u201cThey will die alone,\u201d without children, since when one who is without a child goes to that world, he dies there. Thus, he dies in this world and in the next world. This is why it is written, \u201cFor you shall die and not live.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
389) Moreover, the Shechina is not over him whatsoever. Then it is written, \u201cAnd Hezekiah turned his face to the wall,\u201d meaning he placed thoughts and directed himself to taking a wife, so that the Shechina, called \u201ca wall,\u201d will be over him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
390) This is why it is written, \u201cAnd he prayed to the Lord.\u201d One who has a transgression in his hand, and who wishes to plead for mercy for himself, should aim his face and thoughts to correcting himself from that transgression, and then ask his prayer, as it is written, \u201cLet us examine and probe our ways\u201d first, and then, \u201cLet us return.\u201d Here, too, since Hezekiah knew his iniquity, it is written, \u201cAnd Hezekiah turned his face to the wall,\u201d meaning he turned his face to correct in the Shechina, who is a wall, since there was the place where he sinned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
391) Because all the females in the world are in the Shechina, one who has a female, the Shechina is on him. And one who does not have one, she is not over him. This is why Hezekiah corrected himself into being corrected with her, and took it upon himself to marry a wife, and then, \u201cAnd he prayed to the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
392) A wall is the Lord of all the land, the Shechina, as it is written, \u201cBehold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth.\u201d Thus, the ark of the covenant, the Shechina, is the Lord of all the earth, which is a wall, and this is why it is written, \u201cHezekiah turned his face to the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
393) It is written in a prayer, \u201cRemember now, O Lord, I beseech You, how I have walked before You,\u201d meaning that he kept the holy covenant and did not defile it, \u201cIn truth and with a whole heart, intending in all the meanings of faith that are included in the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
394) \u201cAnd have done what is good in Your eyes,\u201d attaching redemption to prayer. Yesod is called \u201credemption.\u201d The Nukva is called \u201cprayer.\u201d He intended to make that unification properly, which is why it is written, \u201cAnd Hezekiah wept bitterly.\u201d There is no gate that stands before tears and does not open. When redemption is attached to a prayer, the Nukva, the redeeming angel, is found in all the redemptions in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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