The Son of the Great King
An allegory by Baal HaSulam from "Introduction to The Tree of Life"
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A king who has
A tower full of all the best,
But with no guests,
Surely sits and awaits their arrival.
For if not,
All his preparations
Will have been in vain.
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This is similar to a great king
Who bore a son in his latter years,
A son he loved more than anything.
So from the day the boy was born,
The king thought of good things for him.
He gathered all the books
And the wisest teachers in the country
And built for him a seminary for wisdom.
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He assembled the finest builders
To build for him palaces of pleasure.
He summoned the greatest musicians
To build his son music halls.
He also gathered the best cooks and bakers
In the country
And provided him with every delicacy in the world.
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Alas, the son grew up,
And lo, he was a fool.
He had no wish for education.
He was blind
And could not see or sense
The beauty of the buildings.
And he was deaf,
Unable to enjoy the voices of the singers.
And he was also diabetic,
Forbidden to eat
Anything but coarse-flour bread.
Indeed, an infuriating conclusion.
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