{"id":10089,"date":"2025-11-28T15:28:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=10089"},"modified":"2025-11-28T15:28:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:28:03","slug":"i-am-black-and-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/i-am-black-and-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Black, and Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>232) \u201cAnd they said, \u2018An Egyptian delivered us.\u2019\u201d They said, but they did not know what they said. It is like a person who is sitting in the wilderness without having eaten meat for days. One day, a bear comes to snatch a sheep. The sheep runs and the bear chases it until they reach that man in the wilderness. He saw the sheep, grabbed it, slaughtered it, and had meat. It turns out that the bear caused that man to eat meat. Here, too, the Egyptian that was killed by Moses caused Moses to escape and come to Midian, to the well. This is why it is written, \u201cAn Egyptian delivered us,\u201d by the spirit of holiness, meaning the Egyptian that Moses had killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>233) \u201cThese are the names of the children of Israel who come to Egypt with Jacob, they came each man with his household.\u201d Israel is the name of&nbsp;<em>Gadlut<\/em>&nbsp;[greatness\/adulthood]. Hence, why is this name mentioned when they came to the exile in Egypt, and why does the name Jacob, which is&nbsp;<em>Katnut<\/em>&nbsp;[smallness\/infancy], return later?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, it is written, \u201cI am black and beautiful, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.\u201d \u201cI am black and beautiful\u201d is the assembly of Israel, the Shechina, which is black, from the exile. And beautiful, because she is beautiful in Torah and&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>&nbsp;[commandments] and the good deeds that Israel do. The daughters of Jerusalem are the souls that engage in Torah and&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>. For doing so, they are rewarded with inheriting the Jerusalem above, which is the Shechina. \u201cAs the tents of Kedar\u201d means that although she is&nbsp;<em>Koderet<\/em>&nbsp;[gloomy] in exile, in deeds she is as \u201cThe curtains of Solomon,\u201d the lights of the king that peace is his, meaning&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two discernments in exile. There are judgments and&nbsp;<em>Katnut<\/em>&nbsp;from the exile itself, but the good deeds that the righteous do in exile are comely and elevate the Shechina to the curtains of Solomon. Hence, from the perspective of the good deeds, it is written, \u201cThe children of Israel, who come to Egypt,\u201d the name of the&nbsp;<em>Gadlut<\/em>, and with respect to the exile itself, it is written, \u201cWith Jacob, they came each man with his household,\u201d the name of&nbsp;<em>Katnut<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>232) \u201cAnd they said, \u2018An Egyptian delivered us.\u2019\u201d They said, but they did not know what they said. 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