146) \u201cRachel weeps for her sons.\u201d But Rachel\u2019s sons were only Joseph and Benjamin, and the six tribes were Leah\u2019s; thus, why did Rachel cry and not Leah?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
147) It is written, \u201cAnd Leah’s eyes were soft,\u201d since she went to a crossroads each day and asked about Esau. She would be told of the deeds of that wicked one and she feared that she would fall under him, and she cried each day until her eyes were softened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
148) And the Creator said, \u201cYou cried to be rewarded with that righteous, Jacob, and to not fall under that wicked one. Your sister Rachel will rise in a crossroads and will weep for the exile of Israel, and you will be in the Cave of Machpelah and will not cry for them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
149) Rachel and Leah are two worlds: Nukva<\/em> from Chazeh<\/em> of ZA<\/em> upwards is called \u201cLeah,\u201d and Nukva<\/em> from Chazeh<\/em> of ZA<\/em> and below is called \u201cRachel.\u201d One is a concealed world, Leah, and the other is a revealed world, Rachel. This is why Leah was buried and hidden in the cave and was covered, and Rachel stood at the crossroads, for she was buried in the way to Ephrat, which is revealed. It is all as it is above. This is why he did not bring Rachel to the cave or to another place, since it is written, \u201cWhen there was still some way to come to Ephrat,\u201d and he did not bring her into the city because he knew her place was in a revealed location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 150) The assembly of Israel, Malchut<\/em>, is called Rachel, and it is written, \u201cLike a sheep [Rachel also means \u201csheep\u201d in Hebrew] that is silent before its shearers.\u201d She is silent because when other nations rule, she is devoid of a voice\u2014ZA<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 151) \u201cA voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children, because they are gone.\u201d \u201cA voice is heard in Ramah\u201d is Jerusalem above, Bina<\/em>. \u201cRachel weeping for her children\u201d means that as long as Israel are in exile she weeps for them because she is their mother. \u201cRefusing to be comforted for her children, because they are gone, since her husband\u2014ZA<\/em>\u2014which is voice, has departed her and is not connected to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 152) Not once did she cry for Israel, but every hour they are in exile. This is why when they blemished the voice that departed Rachel, the Creator caused a voice to punish the Egyptians, as it is written, \u201cAnd there shall be a great cry in all the land of Egypt.\u201d He also prepared other voices for them in those frogs, which raised a voice inside their intestines, and were they falling in the streets as though they were dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 153) \u201cAnd the frog came up.\u201d It should have said, \u201cfrogs\u201d in plural form. But there was one frog, and it procreated and the land was filled with them, and they were all giving themselves to the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What concern is it to the Egyptians that all the frogs went into the fire? But they walked into the oven and got inside the bread. There they would split and others came out of them and were swallowed in the bread. When the Egyptians came to eat the bread, the bread turned back into frogs in their stomachs, where they would dance and raise their voices until the Egyptians died. For them, this was the toughest blow of all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is written, \u201cAnd the river shall swarm with frogs … And the frogs shall come up both upon you, and upon your people, and upon all your servants.\u201d Thus, they came inside their bodies. Pharaoh was struck first, and more than everyone, for it is written, \u201cBoth upon you, and upon your people, and upon all your servants.\u201d May the name of the Lord be blessed from the world and to the world, for He commands people\u2019s deeds in all that they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 154) It is written, \u201cAnd the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.\u201d It writes \u201cPharaoh\u201d three times here: one for that time, one implying the Pharaoh at the time of Joseph, and one implying the Pharaoh in the days of Moses, who was struck by his rod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 155) When Sarah was taken to the first Pharaoh, he gestured to the artists and they painted her figure in his room on the wall above his head. But he was not calmed until they formed Sarah\u2019s figure on a board, and when he went to his bed he would take the board with him. Every king that came after him would see that image in the painting. Entertainers would come before him, and when he went to bed he enjoyed that painting. This is why here the king was struck more than everyone, as it is written, \u201cInto your bedroom, and upon your bed,\u201d and then it is written, \u201cInto the house of your servants, and upon your people.\u201d However, it does not write \u201cUpon your bed\u201d for all of them, only for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 156) It is written, \u201cAll the rivers run into the sea, and the sea is not full.\u201d When these rivers, lights of ZA<\/em>, run to the sea, Malchut<\/em>, the sea receives them and swallows them into it, since the water freezes in the sea, and this ice suckles all the water that come into it. Afterwards, the waters come out by the force of the south, the Hassadim<\/em> on the right side, and waters all the \u201cbeasts of the field,\u201d as it is written, \u201cThey give drink to every beast of the field.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is so because first, Malchut<\/em> receives only from the left side. At that time, her level is equal to ZA<\/em>, since then she has GAR<\/em> of Hochma<\/em>. However, without Hassadim<\/em>, the Hochma<\/em> cannot shine. Hence, at that time, Malchut<\/em> becomes a frozen sea because the light in her is frozen and does not shine. Then comes the middle line and makes the right overcome the left, and the right imparts the light of Hassadim<\/em> to the left, and the Hochma<\/em> clothes in Hassadim<\/em>. Then the ice melts and the sea waters all the worlds. However, for this reason the Hochma<\/em> is reduced from GAR<\/em> and there is only VAK<\/em> of GAR<\/em> in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is why it is said, \u201cWhen those rivers run into the sea,\u201d meaning the lights of the left line of Bina<\/em>, which ZA<\/em> imparts to Malchut<\/em>, as it is written, \u201cLet his left hand be under my head.\u201d The sea receives them and engulfs them within it, since the water freezes in the sea and this ice suckles all the waters that come into it, since the great lights of GAR<\/em> of Hochma<\/em> come into Malchut<\/em> only when it is frozen, since after the ice has melted, there is only VAK<\/em> of Hochma<\/em> in her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hence, it is considered that this ice suckles all the waters that come into it, even the GAR<\/em> of Hochma<\/em>, and not in the subsequent state. The waters come out by the force of the south, meaning the right, south, overcomes the left line, and imparts it with Hassadim<\/em> to clothe the Hochma<\/em>. Then the ice melts and turns back to water, to bestow upon all the lower ones, watering all the beasts of the field, meaning the degrees in BYA<\/em> outside of Atzilut<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 157) When the frozen sea receives from the left line, it freezes and suckles all the water, even GAR<\/em> of Hochma<\/em>. And it melts by the force of the south, when it overcomes the left\u2014north\u2014by the force of the middle line. At that time it imparts it with Hassadim<\/em> for the clothing of Hochma<\/em> in it, by which it can shine below. This is considered that the ice has melted and returned to being water. And this is why the sea is not full, since it only returns to being water through the middle line, when it makes the south prevail over the north. By that, it loses the GAR<\/em> of Hochma<\/em> that it received while being frozen. It turns out that it is not filled because it lacks the GAR<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 158) The friends noted in the verse, \u201cTo the place where the rivers go, there they go again,\u201d that the river that comes out of Eden, Yesod<\/em> of ZA<\/em>, never ceases its abundance from the Malchut<\/em> and always brings out water to the sea. This is why the waters \u201cGo again,\u201d coming and going and coming ceaselessly. And when it goes again, to go and to water everything, meaning to extend Hochma<\/em> that surrenders all the shells, a Northern wind comes, left, from which there is Hochma<\/em>, and the water freezes. Then the warm Southern wind opens them so they can go in every direction. This is why the sea sits between the two sides, north and south, and persists through them. And the ships, the degrees that receive from the Malchut<\/em>, go and travel in it to all directions once the four directions\u2014south, north, east, and west\u2014are included in one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 159) When the king, ZA<\/em>, comes to his bed, to Malchut<\/em>, at half the night, the Northern wind awakens, meaning the left line, and evokes love for the queen, Malchut<\/em>. Without the awakening of the north the king would not bond with her because love begins in the north, as it is written, \u201cLet his left hand be under my head.\u201d And the south, the right line, embraces with love, as it is written, \u201cAnd let his right hand embrace me.\u201d Then, several entertainers evoke singing until the morning comes, as it is written, \u201cWhen the morning stars sing together, and all the children of God cheer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 160) And when the morning comes, all the upper and lower sing. At night, only the angels that extend from the left line sing, but in the morning they all sing, even those who extend from the right. This is so because then all the lines are included in one another under the domination of the right. And similarly, Israel below sing, as it is written, \u201cYou who remind the Lord, take no rest.\u201d It is written, \u201cTake no rest\u201d specifically to the lower ones, to Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 161) When half the night is through, those whose desire is to always mention the Creator do not give rest to their hearts; they rise out of their beds to mention the Creator. When the morning rises, they come early to the synagogue and praise the Creator. It is the same at midday, at Minhah<\/em> [afternoon prayer], and at night, when the night grows dark and adheres to darkness and the sun sleeps. It is written about them, \u201cYou who mention the Lord, take no rest.\u201d This is the holy people of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 162) This is why the Creator mentioned them in Egypt and they rose over Pharaoh, meaning those who do not calm day and night, who are the frogs whose voices never quiet. And this was because he attacked the holy people who never cease from praising the Creator day and night. And there was not a man in Egypt who could speak to his friend. The land was ruined by them, and the infants and children died by their voices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 163) How is it that they could not kill the frogs? If a person raised a stick or a stone to kill one, it immediately split and out of its gut emerged six frogs that walked and kicked the earth until they refrained from approaching them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 164) Several rivers, several Niles come out from the upper sea, Malchut<\/em>, when the water opened and were drawn. The several streams divide into several sides, several Niles, and to several rivers that are the part that is appointed over the side of Egypt. These are spawning waters, since there is no water that comes out of the sea that does not produce fish of all sorts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 165) If the rivers and Niles are upper degrees that extend from the Malchut<\/em>, then who are the fish? They are emissaries in the world, appointed over doing the will of their Maker. They are appointed by the spirit of wisdom. There is water that raises wise and there is water that raises fools, according to these rivers, which strengthen into all discernments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 166) The rivers of Egypt grow sorcerers, which are strong fish, connected by ten degrees of magic, as it is written, \u201cMagician, magic, one who sees in clouds, a fortuneteller, a sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or one who practices divination, or one who calls up the dead.\u201d Magician is one degree and magic is two degrees, thus they are three. With the other seven, they are ten, thus ten kinds of the wisdom of sorcery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 167) At the time of the exodus from Egypt, the Creator stretched out His finger and mingled those streams and rivers of the Egyptians, which are the upper degrees from which the Egyptians nurse. Thus, their fish of wisdom were detained from imparting them with wisdom. One turned into blood, and one, the fish\u2014meaning the frogs\u2014raised their voice to extend the spirit of wisdom uselessly, and the spirit of their wisdom did not come upon them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 168) Arov<\/em> [\u201cmixture,\u201d 4th<\/sup> plague, a.k.a. \u201cflies\u201d] means that He mingled their degrees of wisdom and they could not attain them. Moreover, even those degrees of wisdom that were already in the land, they destroyed them in the land, meaning they became damaging and corrupted their ways. Arov<\/em> is a medley, as it is written, \u201ca garment … of two kinds of material mixed together,\u201d meaning a mixture of wool and flax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 169) Several forces awakened above as one, and the Creator mixed them together to mingle their strong forces above. And all those mighty deeds that the Creator did in Egypt were with one hand, the mighty hand, meaning He raised His hand over them above and below, and from there was the wisdom of Egypt lost, as it is written, \u201cAnd the wisdom of their wise men shall perish.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 170) It is written, \u201cAnd I will spur Egypt against Egypt,\u201d the Egypt above, their ministers, against the Egypt below. This is because those armies above were appointed over the armies below and they were all mingled. Their systems above were mingled and the Egyptians could not use their magic to connect to these places of their ministers above, to whom they connected from the beginning, since they were mingled. This is why He brought upon them the plague of the mixture, which is animals that were mingled in one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 171) What do the lice that the dust of the earth brought up mean? Everything that is born on earth is extended from an appointed force from above, which has been sown upon it. It is all as it is above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 172) The Creator created seven firmaments, and correspondingly, seven lands. These are the boundaries that were explained in their places, corresponding to the seven Sefirot<\/em>, HGT<\/em> NHYM<\/em>. Also, there are seven firmaments above and seven boundaries of the earth above. Similarly, the degrees expand below in seven firmaments and the seven boundaries of the earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are two orders in the world: 1) One is an arrangement of circles one inside the other, where the outer is more important. The outermost circle is on top, near Ein Sof<\/em>, and the worst is the most internal, this world. 2) Arranged in a straight order one below the other, where the more internal is more important and the more external is worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The circles are inside one another like onionskins. Here it is referring to the straight order; hence, the holy land is inside and the seventy lands of the nations surround it from the outside, since in the direct order, the more internal is better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 173) And these are the seven boundaries of the earth above, which correspond to HGT<\/em> NHYM<\/em>. Each spreads into ten, since each of the HGT<\/em> NHYM<\/em> consists of ten Sefirot<\/em>, hence they divide into seventy appointees that were appointed over the seventy nations. And those lands, which are the boundaries of each nation, which are the seventy lands, surround the holy land of Israel, as it is written, \u201cBehold, it is the traveling couch of Solomon; sixty mighty men are around it, of the mighty men of Israel.\u201d And there are ten that are hidden in them, which are seventy together. These are the seventy that surround the holy land. This is above, and it is the same below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 174) That land is the boundary of the part of Egypt. At that time, the Creator stretched out His hand and flames of fire were born in that boundary, and all those boundaries that were wet from the sea were dried, as well as each drop of springing water. Then the lice were seen below in the land of Egypt, out of the dust of the earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 175) Aaron struck the dust of the earth with lice, so why is it said here that the Creator stretched out His finger? But this is why Aaron was striking, to show that the right hand of the Creator broke the enemies, as it is written, \u201cYour right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy.\u201d This is so because Aaron is a priest, a Merkava<\/em> [chariot\/structure] for the Creator\u2019s right hand. 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