מלך עלובThe Insulted King

melekh 'aluvIn Gamatria ↗

Even while being wronged, He keeps the wrongdoer alive.

The book opens with a claim: a person resembles the divine 'image and likeness' not through the shape of the body but through deeds. So one must imitate the thirteen attributes of mercy that Cordovero reads in Micah 7:18–20 and assigns to Keter, the Crown. The first, 'Who is a God like You,' pictures an insulted king. At the very moment a person sins, God is still pouring into him the life and movement he uses to sin. He could withdraw it instantly, yet does not. So a person should bear insult and still not withhold goodness from the one who receives it.

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