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(29) The destruction of the inner Temple is first. It is a residence, and it is enough that it be destroyed by a destruction of being without residents. And afterwards is the burning of the outer Sanctuary. And the burning is the destruction [called for there]. And afterwards is the exile of Israel. And so too the sinner begins with the heart which becomes barren of the fear of Heaven. And afterwards to the brain, for there is no fixed dwelling there. For 'a house is a woman,' who is the heart. And [the brain] is completely burnt, such that is no [longer] a place that can even occasionally contain a thought for the sake of heaven which may perhaps bring a thought of repentance to the heart. And afterwards, all the limbs of action are exiled to a place of impurity. And with repentance it is the opposite, as it is written in the Zohar (Part 1, 134b), "First [in the prayers] is 'Rebuild Jerusalem,' and afterwards, 'bring in the dispersed of Israel.'" And in the Yerushalmi on Maaser Sheni (5:5): It is since the kings of the nations of the world will rebuild the Temple. As the repair of character traits and the heart is first, and of deeds is afterwards. And it appears that the Sanctuary is before the building of the Temple. And likewise, the brain is first - like the Rambam wrote at the beginning of Chapter 2 of the Foundations of the Torah, "And how is the way, etc."