Walking Before the
King
Baal HaSulam
A man walking along the road
Sees
a most beautiful garden
And
hears a voice calling him.
It
is the King strolling in the garden.
Excited,
The
man leaps over the fence
And
into the garden.
In
his excitement and haste
He
does not notice
That
he is walking ahead of the King
While
the King is strolling
Close
behind him.
And
so the man walks on,
Thanking
the King and praising him
With
all his heart
In
preparation for
Greeting
the King.
And still, he takes no notice
That
the King is right beside him.
Suddenly,
he turns around
And
sees the King beside him.
Naturally, he is very glad
And
he begins to walk behind the King,
Thanking
and praising him with all his might,
For
the King is ahead of him and he is behind.
And
so they stroll right up to the entrance.
The
man walks out the door,
Returning
to his starting point,
And
the King remains in the garden
And
locks the gate.
When the man realizes
They
have parted,
And
that the King is no longer with him,
He
begins to seek the opening of the garden
through
which he had left,
So
that the King will be ahead of him.
But
there is no such gate.
There
is only the way
He
entered the first time,
When
he was ahead of the King.
And
the King was behind him,
Undetected.