529) \u201cReuben, you are my firstborn.\u201d Why did Jacob begin the blessings with Reuben and not with Judah? After all, in the journeying of the banners he was travelling before all the camps, and he is a king. Moreover, he blessed Reuben but the blessings departed him until Moses came and prayed for him, as it is written, \u201cLet Reuben live, and not die.\u201d Accordingly, it would be better if he began with Judah and would begin with a blessing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
530) However, he certainly blessed Reuben and the blessing rose to its place. There is an allegory about a man who had a son. When his time to depart from the world had come, the king came to him and said, \u201cAll my money will be in the hands of the king, kept for my son.\u201d When the king sees that the son is worthy of receiving it, he will give it to him. Similarly, Jacob said to Reuben, \u201cReuben, you are my firstborn, my beloved, but your blessings will be in the hands of the holy King until he sees that you are worthy of them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
531) People are so obtuse that they do not know and do not notice the King\u2019s honor. Indeed, the Torah declares about them each day, \u201cAnd there is none to lend an ear to her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
532) The wisdom is learned from two commandments: one is to awaken from below upwards, as it is written, \u201cProphesy to the wind,\u201d since if they do not awaken below first, they do not awaken above. And in the awakening below, there is awakening above. The second commandment is to awaken from above downwards, as it is written, \u201cProphesy, son of man, and say to the wind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
533) Even above, in the awakening below, upon raising of MAN, the upper one receives from the one above it. Even in the high degrees the lower one receives from the one above it only through an awakening below. It is written about it, \u201cThus says the Lord God, \u2018Come from the four winds, O wind, and breathe on these slain, that they may live,\u2019\u201d meaning Hesed, Tifferet, Gevura, and Malchut. The wind comes from the west, Malchut. She joins the others\u2014south, east, and north\u2014which are HGT, to whom Malchut raises MAN, and they connect to her. Thus, in the upper ones, too, there is an awakening from below, raising of MAN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
534) Ruchot [plural of Ruach (wind\/spirit)] and Neshamot [plural of Neshama (soul)], come out of Malchut, to be depicted in the people in the world, meaning to receive the form of GAR from them. \u201cAnd breathe on these slain,\u201d as it is written, \u201cAnd He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Malchut receives from that side and gives on the other side. Hence it is as is written, \u201cAll the rivers go to the sea, but the sea is not full.\u201d It is not full because it receives and gives, lets in and lets out. This is so because even though Malchut receives from the three sides of ZA\u2014south, north, and east\u2014in the beginning she still receives from the left line, north, and then she has GAR of Hochma. However, it is without Hassadim, hence her lights freeze within her and she cannot shine. Afterwards, when she receives from the middle line, east, the north unites with the south, the lights open, and she shines upon the lower ones. However, then she is diminished from GAR of GAR, due to the middle line, and remains in VAK of GAR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
535) Since the Creator knows that people will die, why bring Neshamot down to the world? Why does He need them? The Creator gives Neshamot that come down to this world to make His glory known, and then He takes them. Hence, why did they come down?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
536) It is written, \u201cDrink water from your cistern and liquids from your well.\u201d A cistern is a place that has no springing of its own. A well springs of its own. Water spring of its own when the Neshama is completed in this world and rises for MAN to Malchut, the place where she was tied. At that time, she is whole on all sides, from below and from above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
537) When the Neshama rises as MAN to Malchut, the craving in the Nukva awakens toward the male, and water spring in Malchut from below upwards. And while she was a cistern, she became a well of flowing water. At that time, there are bonding, unification, craving, and desire, since Malchut was completed in the souls of the righteous, affection and desire awakened above, and ZA and Malchut joined as one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
538) \u201cReuben, you are my firstborn.\u201d He is Jacob\u2019s first drop, since he never emitted in his sleep and his will was in another place, in Rachel. Reuben and all of the twelve tribes united in the Shechina, and when Jacob saw the Shechina over him, he called his twelve sons to join her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
539) A complete bed was never more present since the day the world was created as when Jacob wished to depart the world\u2014Abraham to his right, Isaac to his left, Jacob laying between them, and the Shechina before him. When Jacob saw it, he called his sons and made them grip around the Shechina, and set them up in a complete order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
540) He set them up around the Shechina because it is written, \u201cBe gathered,\u201d meaning gather above, around the Shechina. And then all the wholeness was there, and several high Merkavot [assemblies\/chariots] around them started and said, \u201cTo you, O Lord, is the greatness and the might.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At that time, the sun, Jacob, ZA, assembled with the moon, Nukva, and the east, ZA, drew near to the west, Nukva. It is written about it, \u201cHe drew his feet into the bed,\u201d which indicates to the coupling. And the moon illuminated from him and she was whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jacob did not die. Rather, he made a coupling with the Shechina. Since he saw a complete order, that there was no other person, he was glad and praised the Creator and blessed his sons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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