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358) Woe unto people who do not watch and do not know. When a thought came before the Creator to create His world, all the worlds rose in one thought, and in that thought they were all created, as it is written, \u201cIn wisdom have You made them all.\u201d And in that thought, which is wisdom [Hochma<\/em>], this world and the world above were created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

359) His right [side] leaned and He created the world above, ZA<\/em>. His left [side] leaned and He created this world, Malchut<\/em>, as it is written, \u201cMy hand has laid the foundation of the earth,\u201d Malchut<\/em>, \u201cAnd My right hand has spread out the heavens,\u201d ZA<\/em>. \u201cWhen I call unto them, they stand up together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All were created in a single moment, and He made this world corresponding to the world above, and all that there is above, its likeness appeared below. Thus, there is nothing below without a root in the upper worlds, and all that there is below on earth, its likeness exists in the sea, and all is one. In the upper worlds, He created the angels; in this world, He created people; and in the sea, He created the leviathan [whale], as it is written, \u201cTo join the tent together so that it might be one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

360) It is written of man that He made man in the image of God. It is also written, \u201cYou have made him a little lower than God.\u201d If people so cherish their deeds and they are lower than the dust of the well, for they are lowered by the shells that cling to the dust of Malchut<\/em>, called \u201cwell,\u201d how will they come to pump out abundance from the well? He chose the upper ones, the angels, and He chose Israel. He did not call the upper ones, \u201csons,\u201d but called the lower ones, \u201csons,\u201d as it is written, \u201cYou are the children of the Lord your God.\u201d He called them \u201cchildren,\u201d and they called Him \u201cFather,\u201d as it is written, \u201cFor You are our father,\u201d and it is written, \u201cMy Beloved is mine and I am His; He pastures among the roses,\u201d meaning He chose me and I chose Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

361) \u201cHe pastures among the roses.\u201d He pastures among the roses despite the thorns, the shells around them. No other can pasture in the roses like Him. \u201cHe pastures among the roses.\u201d As this rose is red and its waters, which are melted out of it, are white, the Creator leads His world from the quality of judgment, implied in the red, to the quality of mercy, implied in the white, as it is written, \u201cThough your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

362) Rabbi Abba was walking along the way and Rabbi Isaac was with him. While they were walking, they came across roses. Rabbi Abba took a rose in his hand and was walking. Rabbi Yosi met them and said, \u201cThe Shechina must be here,\u201d and I see a rose in Rabbi Abba\u2019s hand, which is to learn much wisdom from him, for I know that Rabbi Abba took it only to show wisdom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

363) Rabbi Abba said, \u201cSit down my son.\u201d They sat. Rabbi Abba smelled that rose and said, \u201cThe world exists only by the smell,\u201d the Mochin<\/em> of illumination of Hochma<\/em> that shine from below upwards, like the smell. \u201cI see that the soul exists only on the smell,\u201d which is why we smell the myrtle at the end of the Sabbath, to extend Mochin<\/em> of illumination of Hochma<\/em>, smell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

364) He started and said, \u201cMy Beloved is mine and I am His, He pastures among the roses.\u201d Who caused me to be my Beloved\u2019s and my Beloved to be mine? It is because He leads His world with roses. As a rose has a smell and is red, when it melts, it becomes white, but its smell never fades. So is the Creator: He leads His world in this way. Otherwise, the world would not persist because of the sinful man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sinful is called \u201cred,\u201d as it is written, \u201cThough your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.\u201d Also, the sinner offers his sacrifice to the fire, which is red. He throws the blood, which is red, around the altar, and the quality of judgment that is implied in the red. It melts when the offering burns on the altar and the smoke that rises is all white. Then the red turns to white, implying that the quality of judgment has been turned into the quality of mercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

365) The whole of the quality of judgment needs its scent only from the side of the redness, since the smell, illumination of Hochma<\/em>, does not extend from the side of the white\u2014right line, which is all Hassadim<\/em>\u2014but from the side of the red, left line, from which comes Hochma<\/em>, the dot of Shuruk<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is written, \u201cAnd cut themselves according to their custom with swords and with spears until the blood gushed out on them.\u201d And yet, they knew that they would not obtain their wish from the quality of judgment, meaning Malchut<\/em>, to extend Hochma<\/em> from above downwards, as is the wish of all idolaters. Rather, it is only in redness, through the left line, which is red. This is why they \u201cCut themselves … with swords … until the blood gushed out on them,\u201d to extend the redness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

366) Moreover, red and white\u2014left and right\u2014approach the world and the smell rises from the both of them, since the Hochma<\/em> in the left cannot shine without clothing in light of Hassadim<\/em> on the right. Hence, as the rose is red and white, the smell of the offering and the offering itself is from red and white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the scent of the incense, the oils are red and white. The frankincense is white; the flowing myrrh is red, and the scent rises from red and white. Hence He leads His world with roses, which are red and white, and it is written, \u201cTo offer unto Me the fat and the blood,\u201d where the fat is white and the blood is red.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

367) Correspondingly, a man sacrifices his fat and his blood is atoned for him, for this is red and that is white. As the rose is red and white, it is not melted to be made all white again, but in fire. Likewise, the sacrifice is not melted to be made all white again, but in fire. Now, one who sits in his fast and sacrifices his fat and his blood is not melted into being all white again, but in fire. Out of one\u2019s fasting, his organs weaken and the fire overcomes him. At that time, he should sacrifice his fat and his blood in that fire, and this is called \u201cthe atonement altar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

368) When Rabbi Elazar was sitting in fasting, he was praying and said, \u201cIt is revealed and known to You, the Lord my God and the God of my fathers, that I have sacrificed my fat and my blood to You, and I boiled them with the warmth of the weakness of my body. May it please You that this scent that comes out of my mouth at this time is like the scent of the offering from the sacrifice in the fire of the altar and You will grant me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

369) It turns out that with his fasting, a man sacrifices the fat and the blood, and the smell that comes up from his mouth is the altar of repentance. This is why they established the prayer at the place of the offering, as long as he intends to what we were saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is written, \u201cEverything that can stand the fire, you shall pass through the fire, and it shall be clean.\u201d Through the fire, it is returned to being all white. Rabbi Yosi said that while the Temple stood, a person would offer his sacrifice on the matter of the red and white, and the smell that rises from them, and its complete return into whiteness through the fire, and he would be forgiven. Now, a man\u2019s prayer atones for him in the place of the sacrifice in the same way as the intention of the sacrifice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

370) \u201cMy Beloved is mine and I am His, He pastures among the roses.\u201d As roses have thorns in them, the Creator leads His world with righteous and wicked. As the roses would not exist were it not for the wicked, the righteous would not be distinguishable without the wicked. By what are the righteous recognized? Because there are wicked. Had there been no wicked, the righteous would be undetected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe pastures among the Shoshanim<\/em> [roses]\u201d means that He leads His world in Shesh Shanim<\/em> [six years], since \u201croses\u201d have the letters of \u201csix years\u201d [in Hebrew]. And the seventh is a Sabbath for the Creator. Also, \u201cIn the roses\u201d means in those who study the Torah, since Shoshanim<\/em> comes from the word Shoneh<\/em> [studying].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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