March 7, 1941, Jerusalem<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To the holy rav whose light will shine forever…:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
… The question was, \u201cWhat does \u2018Haman from the Torah, where from?\u2019 imply,\u201d from the verse, \u201cHave you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?\u201d He said that the question was, \u201cWhere do we find in the Torah that the Creator summons a messenger to reform a person against his will, as was with Haman, and as it is written, \u2018I will place over you a king such as Haman, and you will repent against your will\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is what our sages showed about the verse, \u201cHave you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you,\u201d etc., for then the evil inclination\u2014the angel of death\u2014was created, forcing the man to engage in Torah, as it is written, \u201cI have created the evil inclination, I have created the Torah as a spice.\u201d If one is not to engage in Torah, the evil inclination will put him to death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It follows that the disclosure of the sin of the tree of knowledge that puts to death\u2014explained in the words, \u201cfrom the tree,\u201d etc., is the messenger that compels a person to reform against his will. This is similar to \u201cI will place over you a king such as Haman, and you will repent against your will.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Had he not been trapped in the serpent\u2019s net and had waited for Shabbat [Sabbath], and ate from the tree of life prior to eating from the tree of knowledge, he would have been granted the Tikkun<\/em> [correction] of the evil inclination being a spice for the Torah. He would not need a forcing messenger such as Haman, as in \u201cI have created the evil inclination, I have created the Torah as a spice.\u201d On the contrary, the evil inclination would have become a spice for the Torah, and now that he sinned, he needs a forcing messenger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I added to it according to a higher source that there is in the sanctity of the Sabbath, that the evil inclination becoming a spice for the Torah is the meal on the Sabbath evening. This is what is implied in the songs of the ARI, \u201cTo enter the openings in the field of apples,\u201d as in \u201cThis is the gate to the Lord,\u201d and as is explained through the rest of those songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Shabbat, at the meal of holy Atik<\/em>, it is possible to receive from the highest place, where the Torah needs no spice, as in \u201cThe Torah and the Creator are one,\u201d by ascending to the world of Atzilut<\/em>, where it was said, \u201cNo harm shall come to you.\u201d It therefore follows that if Adam HaRishon<\/em> had waited with his Zivug<\/em> for Shabbat, he would have been rewarded with the wonderful degree, \u201cThe Torah and the Creator are one,\u201d for at the time of Adam HaRishon<\/em> the worlds were very high, as stated in Rashbi\u2019s essay, Kedoshim<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Indeed, even after the sin he could have risen to Atzilut<\/em>, through the ascent of Shabbat, and not come down from there. This is the meaning of what is written, \u201clest he stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever.\u201d There it was in the form of \u201cThe Torah and the Creator are one.\u201d But the Creator drove him out from there, as it is written, \u201cAnd He drove out the man.\u201d We should ask, \u201cWhy should the Creator mind if he ate from the tree of life and lived forever?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The answer is that all the wonderful Kedusha<\/em> [holiness] of \u201cthe Torah and the Creator are one\u201d that was revealed on Shabbat was only as a loan. Shabbat is an awakening from above, without any awakening from below. But the Torah is completed only through an awakening from below, by observing Torah and Mitzvot<\/em> [commandments]. We should therefore wonder why he was rewarded wholeness on the part of the Creator if his Torah was still incomplete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is what our sages answered regarding what the Creator said, \u201cThey borrowed on My guarantee, and I collect.\u201d That is, \u201cI can lend you the complete Torah to the fullest, until it is enough for \u201cThe Torah and the Creator are one\u201d because \u201cI collect.\u201d That is, I have no fear at all of \u201cLend to the wicked and he will not pay,\u201d for I can place over you a king such as Haman, and you will repent against your will and observe the Torah from love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c\u2018All that is destined to be collected is deemed collected.\u2019 Therefore, I am lending you on Shabbat, as it is written, \u2018and a righteous pardons and gives.\u2019\u201d This is why the Creator did not want him to \u201cstretch out his hand and take from the tree of life,\u201d since then Adam HaRishon<\/em> would not pay and reveal the Torah as an awakening from below, and it would have remained as a loan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This would make it groundless from the start because a Torah that is not completed does not merit being \u201cThe Torah and the Creator are one.\u201d However, the Creator considers the loan as though it was already paid back, since He can force it, and \u201cAll that is destined to be collected is deemed collected.\u201d Hence, He really did force him: \u201cAnd He drove out the man,\u201d to pay back the loan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In truth, the suspension also extends from the eating of the tree of knowledge, and this is the meaning of what our sages said about the verse, \u201cLibel is terrible to people,\u201d the sin of the tree of knowledge, \u201cYou came unto him with libel.\u201d With the above-said we understand that it is to force him to pay back his loan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With these words we also understand his words when he said the intimation that it is Haman from the Torah, since the tree of knowledge is the discernment of \u201cI place over you a king such as Haman,\u201d etc. Just as Haman wished to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews\u2014women and children\u2014in a single day, so is the tree of knowledge, \u201cfor in the day you eat from it you will surely die.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n And just as He forced them to repent from love through the fear of death through Haman\u2019s decree, so the above-mentioned disclosure of the sin, explained in the verse, \u201cHave you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you?\u201d, etc., will compel man to repent from love, as in \u201cI have created the evil inclination, I have created the Torah as a spice.\u201d It is so because if he does not engage in Torah, he will promptly die because of the serpent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n May the Creator help us pay for what we borrowed, and may we be granted complete redemption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yehuda Leib<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 7, 1941, Jerusalem To the holy rav whose light will shine forever…: … The question was, \u201cWhat does \u2018Haman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":6225,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"topic":[25],"class_list":["post-10168","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-baal-hasulam"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n