{"id":10138,"date":"2025-11-29T13:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T13:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=10138"},"modified":"2025-11-29T13:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T13:55:09","slug":"midnight-and-midday","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/midnight-and-midday\/","title":{"rendered":"Midnight and Midday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>100) David is the king of Israel and should judge the people and lead Israel as a shepherd leading his flock so they will not stray from the path of truth. It is written, \u201cAt midnight I will rise to give thanks to You because of Your righteous ordinances.\u201d He engaged in Torah and in praises to the Creator until morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>101) And he awakened the dawn. When the day came he said, \u201cHow I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day.\u201d Anyone who engages in Torah to complement the judgment and scrutinize it to the fullest, it is as though he kept the whole Torah. This is why it is written, \u201cIt is my meditation all the day,\u201d since he engaged in scrutiny of the judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>102) In the day, he engaged in Torah to complete the judgments, and at night he engaged in singing and praising until the day came because all through the day he was engaged in complementing and sorting the judgments, left, to include the left in the right, since day is right,&nbsp;<em>Hesed<\/em>. At night, he engaged in praises,&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>, to include the degree of night, judgment, in the day,&nbsp;<em>Hesed<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>103) In the days of King David he would bring \u201cEvery beast of the field,\u201d dwellers of the three worlds&nbsp;<em>BYA<\/em>, to the sea,&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>. When Solomon came and the&nbsp;<em>Nukva<\/em>&nbsp;was in her fullness, the sea,&nbsp;<em>Nukva<\/em>, came out and was filled, meaning she rose to upper&nbsp;<em>AVI<\/em>\u2014which is her complete fulfillment\u2014and watered them. This is so because then all the dwellers of&nbsp;<em>BYA<\/em>&nbsp;rose to&nbsp;<em>Atzilut<\/em>&nbsp;and received their abundance from the sea. First are the great, upper sea monsters, of which it is written, \u201cAnd fill the waters in the seas,\u201d which are Matat and Sandalphon of&nbsp;<em>Beria<\/em>, which are higher than the rest of the dwellers of&nbsp;<em>BYA<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>100) David is the king of Israel and should judge the people and lead Israel as a shepherd leading his 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