{"id":10135,"date":"2025-11-29T13:49:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T13:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=10135"},"modified":"2025-11-29T13:49:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T13:49:39","slug":"be-afraid-of-the-sword","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/be-afraid-of-the-sword\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Afraid of the Sword"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>77) \u201cBe afraid of the sword; for wrath brings the punishments of the sword.\u201d The sword is the \u201cSword &#8230; that shall execute the vengeance of the covenant.\u201d The sword,&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, is about to observe anyone who lies in the covenant,&nbsp;<em>Yesod<\/em>, for anyone who lies in the covenant blemishes it with incest or with spilling of semen idly. Then the sword takes vengeance from him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>78) \u201cFor wrath brings the punishments of the sword,\u201d since anyone who lies in the covenant distances&nbsp;<em>Malchut\u2019s<\/em>&nbsp;desire to receive abundance from&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>&nbsp;and the one who takes abundance, meaning&nbsp;<em>Yesod<\/em>, does not take and does not give it to its place\u2014<em>Malchut<\/em>\u2014since its place did not awaken to it, which is&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>. This is so because due to the flaw of the covenant, the desire to receive abundance has been taken away from her, and anyone who keeps a covenant causes an awakening of the covenant in his place, in&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, and upper and lower are blessed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>79) When there are righteous in the world, there are those who awaken that covenant to its place, as it is written, \u201cAnd I have also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their dwelling where they lived.\u201d \u201cTheir dwelling\u201d is as it is written, \u201cBe afraid of the sword,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, since it is a place that casts fear in the world. Thus, the patriarchs evoked the covenant to its place,&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, on which it is written, \u201cTo give them the land &#8230; of their dwelling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>80) \u201cWhere they lived.\u201d Malchut is the quality of fear. Since the day they had come close to the Creator, there were dread and high fear in it to keep His commandments. And if by keeping the covenant, one does not cast fear on one\u2019s head, he will never again fear the Creator in the rest of the&nbsp;<em>Mitzvot<\/em>&nbsp;[commandments].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>81) In an awakening from below, when Israel awakened to the Creator and cried before Him, it is written, \u201cAnd I have remembered My covenant.\u201d Then the desire awakened to tie everything into one connection. Since the covenant,&nbsp;<em>Yesod<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>, awakened, the connection of all the&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>&nbsp;awakened. \u201cAnd I have remembered My covenant\u201d means connecting him to&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>. This is why it is written, \u201cTherefore say to the children of Israel, \u2018I am the Lord, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians,\u2019\u201d that all the&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;connected in a single connection to redeem Israel from Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>82) \u201cAnd the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a charge to the children of Israel and to Pharaoh.\u201d \u201cTo the children of Israel,\u201d that He commanded to guide them peacefully, as it should be. \u201cAnd to Pharaoh\u201d means to treat him respectfully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>77) \u201cBe afraid of the sword; for wrath brings the punishments of the sword.\u201d The sword is the \u201cSword &#8230; 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