{"id":10016,"date":"2025-11-27T18:50:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=10016"},"modified":"2025-11-27T18:50:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:50:44","slug":"the-nations-of-the-world-count-by-the-sun-and-israel-by-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/the-nations-of-the-world-count-by-the-sun-and-israel-by-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nations of the World Count by the Sun, and Israel by the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>564) \u201cHe made the moon for the seasons; the sun knows its setting.\u201d \u201cHe made the moon\u201d with which to sanctify the beginnings of months and the beginnings of years. The moon always shines only from the sun, and when the sun governs, the moon does not govern. When the sun sets, the moon governs, and there is no counting of the moon unless when the sun sets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>565) The Creator made both of them shine, as it is written, \u201cAnd God set them in the firmament of the heaven,\u201d to shine upon the earth. \u201cAnd let them be signs,\u201d which are the Sabbaths, \u201cAnd seasons,\u201d which are the good days, \u201cAnd days,\u201d which are the beginnings of months, \u201cAnd years,\u201d meaning the beginnings of years. And let the nations of the world count by the sun, and Israel\u2014by the moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>566) \u201cIf you multiplied the nation, you have increased its gladness.\u201d \u201cIf you multiplied the nation\u201d relates to Israel, of whom it is written, \u201cFor what great nation,\u201d and it is written, \u201cOne nation in the land.\u201d \u201cIts\u201d means \u201cfor it.\u201d Increasing the gladness, the moon, means that her light will grow for Israel. The nations of the world calculate the times according to the movement of the sun, and Israel by the movement of the moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which of them is more important? Is it the counting by the sun or the counting by the moon? The moon is above, and the sun of the nations of the world is below the moon, and that sun receives light from the moon and shines. Israel grip to the moon and hang down by the upper sun, gripping to the place that shines from the upper sun and clinging to it, as it is written, \u201cAnd you who cleave to the Lord your God.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sun implies to ZA, and the moon to his Nukva. There is a time when the Nukva is at the degree of the sun, but on the left and in the posterior. At that time, ZA dresses and receives its light from the right side of Ima, and the Nukva dresses and receives her light from the left side of Ima. Hence, at that time the Nukva, too, is in a state of \u201csun,\u201d like ZA, since she receives from the same place from which ZA receives. And then she is in posterior Mochin, which do not shine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Afterwards she comes down from there, from Chazeh of ZA, and becomes a recipient of ZA. At that time, she is called \u201ca moon,\u201d like the moon that receives from the sun and thus obtains Mochin of GAR. Both the nations of the world and Israel receive from Nukva of ZA. However, the nations of the world, which are left, count by the sun of the Nukva, to her posterior Mochin, at which time the Nukva is entirely left, as suitable for them. And Israel count by the moon when she descends from Chazeh of ZA and below and receives from the sun, ZA, at which time she is called \u201cmoon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sun of the nations of the world is below the moon, in the posterior of the moon, Nukva, since \u201cbelow\u201d means posterior. This means that when she receives from the left of Ima, at which time she is in the form of \u201csun,\u201d that sun receives the light of the moon and shines because at that time, she is in the posterior and does not shine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, how can they persist? Through the sins of Israel: they grip and suckle the part of Israel from the moon, since Tyre was built only on the ruin of Jerusalem. It follows that that sun, from which the nations of the world suckle, receives light from the moon to sustain the nations, since their sun burns and he has no light except what he receives from the moon, from the part of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel grip to the moon, to the Nukva, when she is below Chazeh of ZA and receives from him, and they cascade and descend below Chazeh of ZA, which is the upper sun, where the moon is, and they unite in the place that shines from the upper sun and cling to it. This is unlike the nations of the world, which united in the Nukva when she shines from the left side of Ima. However, Israel cling to her when she shines from the upper sun, who is ZA, as it is written, \u201cAnd you who cleave to the Lord your God.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>564) \u201cHe made the moon for the seasons; the sun knows its setting.\u201d \u201cHe made the moon\u201d with which to 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