{"id":66612,"date":"2019-12-08T12:58:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T10:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=66612"},"modified":"2023-07-03T12:24:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T09:24:12","slug":"beholding-the-king-in-his-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/beholding-the-king-in-his-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Beholding The King In His Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[384,835,666],"acf":{"old_id":"66612","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33877,"related_cahpter":"367","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Both earthly regents, and the Heavenly One","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a prophecy combining both severe warning and great hope, our chapter includes the promise: \u201cYour eyes shall behold the King in His beauty and they shall perceive a distant land\u201d (Isaiah 33:17). This verse is employed in later Jewish texts in a variety of ways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Talmud Bavli Yoma 78b explains the halakhic rule that, despite the general prohibition of bathing on Yom Kippur, a king may wash his face, for \u201cYour eyes shall see the king in his beauty.\u201d This seems based on Israel having been commanded: \u201cYou shall put over you a king whom the Lord God shall choose\u201d (Deut. 17:15). A well-groomed king inspires fear like the roaring of a lion (see Proverbs 20:2).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More metaphysically speaking, it is stated (Midrash Leviticus Rabbah 23:13) that anyone who does not \u201cfeast his eyes\u201d (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">zan einav<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) upon seeing a sexual transgression <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">being committed, merits seeing the Face of the Shekhinah. Our chapter provides the Scriptural proof: \u201cThose who walk righteously\u2026and shut their eyes against contemplating evil\u201d (Isaiah 33:15), is followed by: \u201cYour eyes shall see the King in His beauty\u201d (Isaiah 33:17).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A later Rabbinic text, Eliyyahu Rabbah (Chapter 13 end) states that The Holy One, blessed be He, will sit in His great academy of Torah study with the righteous before him and say to them: Because you have martyred yourselves for Me, you will live forever like Me, and \u201cyour eyes shall see the King in His beauty.\u201d Eliyyahu\u00a0 Zuta (Chapter 1 end) elaborates that it is righteous behavior <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that causes the soul to ascend and sit next to the divine Throne of Glory. For it says: \u201cMaintain justice and do righteousness; for My salvation is close at hand, and My righteousness shall soon be revealed\u201d (Isaiah 56:1). And of the one who behaves righteously is written: \u201cHe shall dwell on high\u2026Your eyes shall see the King in his Beauty\u201d (Isaiah 33:16-17). This verse continues \u201cthey shall perceive a distant land\u201d, which is interpreted that the righteous shall behold the Hekhalot (Heavenly Palaces) that the Holy One, blessed be He, conceived of, nine hundred and seventy-four generations before He created the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Hekhalot texts of ancient Jewish mysticism, the ultimate goal of those who ascend to the Divine Chariot (the \u201cMerkavah\u201d &#8212; described in Ezekiel, Chapter 1) is to \u201csee the King in His Beauty\u201d. Pirqe Hekhalot Rabbati 23:3 dramatically describes the tortuous ascent of those who would dare seek this mystic vision: He shall shake, tremble in fear, be shocked into panic, faint and fall backwards. But Anaphiel, the greatest of the ministering angels, together with the sixty-three guardians of the seven gates of the Hekhalot palaces, shall support him. Together they shall encourage him by saying: Be not afraid, O son of beloved seed! For you shall not be slaughtered, neither shall you be burnt &#8212; Enter and \u201cBehold the King in His Beauty\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image: Engraved illustration of the &#8220;chariot vision&#8221; of the Biblical book of Ezekiel, chapter 1, after an earlier illustration by Matthaeus (Matth\u00e4us) Merian (1593-1650), for his &#8220;Icones Biblicae&#8221; (a.k.a. &#8220;Iconum Biblicarum&#8221;) \/ 1670 \/ wikipedia<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":66615,"id":66615,"title":"is33-vision","filename":"is33-vision.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is33-vision.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/beholding-the-king-in-his-beauty\/is33-vision\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"is33-vision","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":66612,"date":"2019-12-08 10:58:00","modified":"2019-12-08 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