“This is the constitution of the Torah [law] that the Lord had commanded to say,” etc. “Come and see, when this dead departs from the world without children, the daughter of that prince does not gather him to her.” (The Zohar, Hukat, Item 10). In other words, if the will to receive departs from him and he has no need for himself, but his intention is only for the sake of the Creator, he still has no sons because he has still not been rewarded with understanding in the Torah, as in “If you do not know, O fairest among women.”

It was interpreted in the new Zohar that “Although you are the fairest among women, if you do not know the secrets of the Torah, ‘Go forth by the footsteps of the flock,’” and you can learn the secrets of Torah from people “who trample it with their heels.” This is the meaning of “the daughter of that prince does not gather him to her.”

“The Creator takes pity on him and commands his brother to redeem him.” That is, the soul, which is a brother to the body in the same manner as Esau, who is called the “will to receive,” and Jacob is called “desire to bestow,” the soul, as in “He who comes to purify is aided.” The Zohar interprets that it is with a holy soul, meaning that he is given a higher soul, called “greater forces,” which can win the war of the inclination.

“To return and be corrected in another dust,” meaning another body. In other words, through an incarnation, when a higher soul incarnates into his body and is called “other” with respect to the new soul, which is clothed in this body.

“If this redeemer does not wish to revive his brother,” meaning if the new soul cannot redeem the body that is called “her brother,” “Does not wish” means “cannot.”

“A shoe must be tied to his leg,” meaning we must add in the matter of faith.

“That woman,” meaning the Shechina [Divinity], “shall release him and take that shoe to her.” In other words, the Shechina takes the shoe that man has made for her, meaning she accepts the work that he has done, which is a Masach [screen] that he has placed on the will to receive.

“To show that that dead returns to being among the living by this act,” and by this the dead is incarnated into the newborn son. In other words, through one’s work of placing a Masach on the will to receive, he is rewarded with a son, meaning with the secrets of Torah called “son.”

“It is the opposite of that shoe which the dead takes from the living” (The Zohar, Hukat, Item 12), for then that kept shoe, which is on faith, takes the will to receive, meaning those who want to walk with the external intellect.

Conversely, when the Shechina takes the shoe, he is rewarded with the inner intellect, meaning that now he has the sensation of Godliness through Dvekut [adhesion], for the Creator has given him the knowledge and feeling of Godliness. Before the dead receives the shoe, it is considered that he wants knowledge and reception for himself. But through the Dvekut he is rewarded with all the knowledge and feelings.

This is called that the Creator has given him the gift without an awakening on the part of the lower one, and this is called “I have given help to one who is mighty.” Yet, for himself, a person wants to be a servant of the Creator unconditionally, and this is considered that he is receiving everything because it is the will of the Creator.