It is known from books and from authors that the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah is an absolute must for any person from Israel. If one studies the entire Torah and knows the Mishnah and the Gemara by heart, if one is also filled with virtues and good deeds more than all his contemporaries, but has not learned the wisdom of Kabbalah, he must incarnate once more into this world to study the secrets of Torah and wisdom of truth. This is brought in several places in the writings of our sages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is what The Zohar<\/em> writes in the interpretation of \u201cSong of Songs,\u201d explaining the verse, \u201cIf you know not, O fairest among women,\u201d which our sages interpreted as the soul that comes before the Throne after a person\u2019s demise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Creator tells it, \u201cIf you know not, O fairest among women.\u201d Although you are the fairest among women and virtuous in good deeds more than all the souls, if you do not have knowledge in the secrets of Torah, \u201cgo forth by the footsteps of the flock,\u201d leave here and never return to this world. \u201cAnd feed your kids [young goats] beside the shepherds’ tents,\u201d go there to the seminaries and learn the secrets of Torah from the mouths of the disciples of our sages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We must understand their words, conditioning the perfection of a person with the study of the wisdom of truth. Seemingly, how is it different from the other words of the revealed Torah? We found nowhere that one is obligated to understand all the subjects of the Torah and that he will not be completed if one subject in the Torah is missing. Moreover, our sages said that it is not the study that is the most important, but the act. Our sages also said, \u201cOne does much, and another does little, as long as they aim their hearts to Heaven,\u201d and there are many such sayings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In order to attain the depth of their above words, we must first thoroughly understand what has been written many times in The Zohar<\/em> and the Tikkunim<\/em>[Corrections of The Zohar<\/em>] with good taste and with reason: \u201cThe Torah, the Creator, and Israel are one.\u201d This seems very perplexing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before I elucidate their words, I will notify you that our sages have defined a great rule for us regarding all the holy names and appellations in the books. These are their golden words: \u201cAnything that we do not attain, we do not define by a name.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Interpretation: It is known that there is no thought or perception in Him whatsoever, as it is written in the article \u201cElijah Started\u201d in the beginning of theTikkunim<\/em> of The Zohar<\/em>. For this reason, even the thought of the \u201cself\u201d of the Creator is forbidden, much less the speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All the names we call Him do not refer to His self, but only to His lights, expanding from Him to the lower ones. Even the holy name Ein Sof<\/em> [Infinity], presented in the books of Kabbalah is also regarded as light that expands from His essence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, since He determined that His light, which expands from His self, will be attained by the lower ones as Ein Sof<\/em>, we shall therefore define it by that name. Yet, this does not refer to His essence. Since there is absolutely no perception or thought in Him, how will we define Him by a name and a word? After all, all that we do not attain, we do not define by a name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Any beginner in learning the wisdom of truth must contemplate the above great rule before any scrutiny in a book of Kabbalah, that even the thought is forbidden in His self since there is no thought or perception in Him at all, so how can we say a word or a name with regard to Him, which imply attainment?<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, it is a great Mitzva<\/em> [commandment] to examine and research in His illuminations that expand from Him, which are all the holy names and appellations brought in the books. It is an utter must for any person from Israel to study and understand the secrets of Torah and all the ways of His bestowal upon the lower ones, which are the gist of the wisdom of truth and the future reward of the souls at the end of correction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is written in the words of our sages, in several places in The Zohar<\/em> and theTikkunim<\/em>, that all the upper worlds and all the Sefirot<\/em> of the five worlds AK<\/em>and ABYA<\/em> have been prepared in advance in quantity and quality to complement the children of Israel. This is so because the soul of one from Israel is a part of God above and \u201cThe end of an act is in the preliminary thought.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n It arose in His simple will to delight the souls by way of reward for their labor, and for this reason the whole of reality expanded from before Him by way of a sequence of causes and their consequences in the descent of the degrees through the worlds AK<\/em> and ABYA<\/em>. Finally, they elicited two discernments clothed in one another, meaning the soul from the concealments of heaven that expands and robes the corporeal body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The essence of reality expanded through the last degree, which is the corporeal body with a soul. Similarly, the cascading was made by way of cause and consequence relating to the essence of the existence of reality, which are the conducts of His giving that cascade by gradations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thus, the upper light, higher than high, will ultimately expand and come to the soul clothed in the corporeal body in this world, as it is written, \u201cfor the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor to know the Lord, for they shall all know Me, from the greatest of them to the least of them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is written by our sages and in The Book of Zohar<\/em> that \u201cThe whole Torah is the names of the Creator.\u201d All the stories and the laws and the sentences, all are His holy names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the above explained, that \u201cAnything that we do not attain, we do not define by a name,\u201d you will thoroughly understand that the holy names of the Creator are the attainments that expand from Him to His servants, the prophets and the righteous, each according to his merit, as it is written, \u201cwe are distinguished, I and Your people, from all the people that are on the face of the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n This distinguishing comes to us through the reception of the Torah and the keeping of Mitzvot<\/em> [sing. of Mitzvot<\/em>], first only in the revealed way, which has the merit of purifying our bodies and enhancing our souls to such an extent that we become worthy of attaining the whole Torah and its Mitzvot<\/em> as His names. This is the entire reward intended for the souls at the end of correction. However, it is in this world, too, as it is written in the Gemara, \u201cYou will see your world in your life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n This explains to us why he calls the 613 Mitzvot<\/em> in several places in The Zohar<\/em>\u201c613 Eitin<\/em> [Aramaic: counsels] in the Torah.\u201d Also, in many places in The Zohar<\/em>, he calls the 613 Mitzvot<\/em> \u201c613 Pekudin<\/em> [Aramaic: deposits].\u201d This is so because at first, one must keep the Torah and the Mitzvot<\/em> in order to purify his body and enhance his soul. At that time, the 613 Mitzvot<\/em> are as 613 Eitin<\/em> for him, meaning \u201ctips\u201d by which to ultimately come before the King and be rewarded with the light of His face. Observing the Torah and keeping theMitzvot<\/em> gradually cleanse him until he is rewarded with the light of the King of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also, it is written similarly in the Gemara: \u201cWhy should the Creator mind if one slaughters at the throat or at the back of the neck? Indeed, the Torah andMitzvot<\/em> were given only in order to purify Israel with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, after one has been sufficiently purified and merits the light of His face, one\u2019s eyes and soul open and he is rewarded with attaining the 613 holy lights found in the 613 Mitzvot<\/em>. These are his holy names, meaning the ones that come to our attainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By keeping each of the Mitzvot<\/em>, one takes the part of the light deposited in thatMitzva<\/em> since the Mitzva<\/em> is a Kli<\/em> [vessel] where the light is clothed, meaning a holy name that belongs explicitly to that Mitzva<\/em>. This is the meaning of \u201cTheMitzva<\/em> is a candle and the Torah is light.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n At that time, he calls the 613 Mitzvot<\/em> \u201c613 Pekudin<\/em>.\u201d It is like one who deposits good stones and gems in a Kli<\/em> and says to his loved one, \u201cTake this Kli<\/em> for yourself but guard it from the thieves and robbers.\u201d Thus, they only speak of the Kli<\/em>, but their primary intention is the precious stones deposited there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is known in the books of Kabbalah that the meaning of the holy name \u201cThe Blessed Holy One\u201d or Kudsha Brich Hu<\/em> [the same in Aramaic] written by our sages and in The Zohar<\/em> is named after the HaVaYaH<\/em> [Yod<\/em>–Hey<\/em>–Vav<\/em>–Hey<\/em>]. This holy name contains all the holy names until one higher than high. Thus, we learn that \u201cThe Torah and the Creator are one,\u201d even though the masses do not see Him in the Torah, but only stories, sentences, and laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Indeed, I have already explained that \u201capples of gold in settings of silver\u201d is how the 613 Pekudin<\/em> are called. It is as our sages said, \u201cThe whole Torah is the names of the Creator.\u201d Hence, the Torah and the Creator are one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet, there are general and particular, where the Creator is the assembly of all the names and the general light, and the Torah is divided into 613 lights. It follows, that all of them together are one, and are the Creator Himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now there still remains for us to explain the discernment of Israel. First, you must understand the matter of the multiplicity of the separate forms in spirituality, meaning how they are divided and in what. (Author\u2019s proofreading) Corporeal things are separated by a knife and such, or time and place separate and distinguish them. Yet, this is unthinkable in spirituality, as it is known to be above time and space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, know that the whole difference in spirituality between the upper lights is only in the disparity of form. For example: The mental souls in people are certainly divided into separate souls. Each individual has a different soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet, the essential difference between them is nothing more than stemming from their disparity of form, meaning that the soul of one is good, the other\u2019s is bad, one has acquired wisdom, and the other folly, etc. Our sages say about this, \u201cAs their faces differ from each other, so their views differ from each other.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet, we can understand that if all the people were to come by the same concepts and the same inclinations without any difference whatsoever, all the souls of all the people would be regarded as a single soul. Its value would have been the same as the sunlight; the light clothes in all the inhabitants of the world, yet we do not discern that there are separate forms in the sunlight. Similarly, one mental soul would have robed in many bodies since places do not separate at all in spiritual matters if there are no separate forms in their attribute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now we shall come to the scrutiny, that it is known that the meaning of the souls of the children of Israel is that they are a part of God above. The soul cascaded by way of cause and consequence and descended degree by degree until it was suitable to come into this world and clothe the filthy corporeal body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It ascends degree by degree until its stature is completed by keeping the Torah and observing its Mitzvot<\/em>. Finally, it is worthy of receiving its complete reward, which has been prepared for it in advance, meaning attaining the holy Torah as the names of the Creator, which are the 613 Pekudin<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now you can see with your mind\u2019s eye that \u201cThe Torah and Israel are one.\u201d The whole difference between the Torah and the soul is due to the disparity of form in the soul, which has been reduced to a very, very small light, and the Torah is simple light that expands from His essence, whose sublimity is endless, for \u201cThe Torah and the Creator are one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, when the soul is complete in its full stature and receives the Torah in the form of His names, namely attains all the light deposited in the Torah andMitzvot<\/em>, you find that the light of the soul is equal to the light of the Torah, since it has already attained all the light in the Torah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is considered incomplete as long as there is some deficit in attaining a small and subtle part of the general light of the Torah. This is because the entire light was prepared for the souls, as I have explained above, \u201cEverything that we do not attain, we do not define by a name.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since the light has been prepared for the attainment of the soul, and the soul did not attain all of it, it is therefore deemed incomplete. It is as it is written, \u201cI shall keep the whole Torah except for one thing. Certainly, he is a complete evil.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, such as that you can declare in the keeping of the Torah and Mitzvot<\/em>in attaining the 613 commandments. It is incomplete when lacking even one thing, great or small.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hence, in the end\u2014for it will finally come to complete perfection, namely attain the entire light of the Torah\u2014there will be no disparity of form between the light of the soul and the light of Torah. Thus, you tastefully find that the Torah and Israel are literally one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They are one because there really is no difference and disparity of form between them. Since we have already proven that \u201cThe Creator and the Torah are one,\u201d and now we have proven that \u201cThe Torah and Israel are one,\u201d it is therefore evident that \u201cThe Torah and the Creator and Israel are one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n From all the above you find that there are two parts in the Torah and Mitzvot<\/em>. The first is Torah and Mitzvot<\/em> as they appear to all, being the keeping ofMitzvot<\/em> and the learning of Torah in the form of 613 Eitin<\/em>. These have the power to purify and cleanse the body, and enhance the merit of the soul to be worthy and fit to receive the light of the King of life as was the soul in its root before it diminished and came to this lowly body in the lowly world. The second part is observing the Mitzvot<\/em> and learning the Torah in the form of 613Pekudin<\/em>, namely the matter of attaining His names and the full reward of the souls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The merit of the latter part over the former is as the merit of Heaven over Earth. This is because the first part is merely the preparation, and the second part is the actual completeness and the purpose of creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This explains our above question about the words of our sages, that even if a person excels in the Torah and good deeds more than all his contemporaries, if he has not learned the secrets of Torah and the wisdom of truth, he must reincarnate in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We asked: What is the difference between this subject in the wisdom of truth and other subjects in the Torah? We found nowhere that one is compelled to engage in all the topics in the Torah. On the contrary, we have found opposition to that in many places, such as, \u201cOne does much, and another does little, as long as they aim their hearts to Heaven,\u201d and also, \u201cIt is not the study that is of importance, but the act.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now it becomes utterly clear: The entire part of the revealed Torah is but a preparation to become worthy and merit attaining the concealed part. It is the concealed part that is the very wholeness and the purpose for which man is created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hence, clearly, if a part of the concealed part is missing, although one may keep the Torah and observe its Mitzvot<\/em> in the revealed part, he will still have to come to this world again to receive what he should receive, namely the concealed part in the form of the 613 Pekudin<\/em>. Only in this is the soul completed, as the Creator had predetermined for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can therefore see the utter necessity for anyone from Israel, whomever he may be, to engage in the internality of the Torah and its secrets. Without it, the intention of creation will not be completed in man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the reason that we reincarnate, generation after generation, to our current generation, which is the residue of the souls upon which the intention of creation has not been completed, as they did not attain the secrets of the Torah in past generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is why it was said in The Zohar<\/em>: \u201cThe secrets of Torah are destined to be revealed at the time of the Messiah.\u201d It is clear to anyone who understands since they will be completing the intention of creation, and therefore merit the coming of the Messiah. Hence, inevitably, the secrets of the Torah will be revealed among them openly since if the correction is prevented, they will be compelled to reincarnate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This will explain to you what we should ask about this interpretation in general, for who am I and who are my fathers that I have been awarded making the interpretation to expand the knowledge of the hidden secrets in The Zohar<\/em>and the writings of the ARI? Moreover, why have we thus far found no other to interpret this wisdom as openly as I?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now you can see that because our generation is really the time of the Messiah and we are all standing at the threshold of the complete correction, and the only prevention is the departure from the wisdom of truth that is present in this generation to the very end, because of the difficulty of the languages and the scattered matters, for one\u2019s view \u2026 without knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to all that, there is the smallness of the mind and the many troubles abundant in our generation. Hence, when the Creator wishes to hasten the redemption of our souls, He has passed a privilege through me to disclose the measure that is in this interpretation, and the will of God succeeded in my hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I did have another reason that brought me to interpret this disclosure, as it is written in The Zohar<\/em>: \u201cOne must learn a little bit of folly,\u201d as it is written, \u201cAs the advantage of the light from within the darkness.\u201d After I completed my time in the city of Warsaw in the country of Poland, confined to my chamber and having nothing to do with the darkness of my surroundings, I have been blessed with settling in the holy City of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I walked among the people, I indeed saw the poverty of my people, the poverty of their mind. Their foolish laughter was in my ears as the crackling of thorns under a pot, mocking and trampling the heart and soul of our yearnings, slandering the Creator, His law, and His people in a loud voice, that there is no wisdom, understanding or knowledge in the wisdom of Kabbalah whatsoever. Rather, it is an assortment of words and names, no sense and no moral, only literal words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is a privilege to chatter idle words in the written text with complete faith that they are holy words, and that by this, the purpose of creation will be completed upon us. When the number of those who engage in the literal texts with complete faith increases, the Messiah King will come at once, for by that the whole correction will be completed, and nothing more is needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Finally, I met with the famous ones among them. These are people who have already worn out their years delving in the writings of the ARI and The Zohar<\/em>. They have so succeeded, that they have memorized all the writings of the ARI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They have a reputation as being the holiest people in the land. I asked them if they had studied with a teacher who attained the internality of the matters. They replied, \u201cHeavens, no! There is no internality here at all, but a literally written text, and not more than that, God forbid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n I asked them if Rav Chaim Vital had attained the internality of the matters. They replied, \u201cHe certainly did not attain more than we attain.\u201d I then asked them about the ARI himself. They answered, \u201cHe certainly did not know about the internality more than we do, and all that he knew he\u2019d passed on to his disciple Rav Chaim Vital and so they came to our hands.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n I mocked them: \u201cHow then were the matters composed in the heart of the ARI without any understanding and knowledge?\u201d They replied, \u201cHe received the composition of the matters from Elijah, and he knew the internality since he is an angel.\u201d Here I poured my wrath on them, for my patience to be with them had ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I saw that their folly had been rooted in nearly everyone who engage in this wisdom at that time, woe to the ears that so hear, \u201cWill he even force the queen with me in the house?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Zohar<\/em> has already mourned bitterly the denial of the sins in their souls, saying that there are no internal secrets in the Torah, as it is written in the portion VaYera<\/em>, \u201cHas the Torah come to show us fables and historic tales? Such stories and fables are found among other nations, too.\u201d Our sages said that they uproot the plantings for they take only Malchut<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What would the authors of The Zohar<\/em> say when seeing such a sinful culture of people, denying that there is any knowledge or wisdom in the words of The Zohar<\/em> and the wisdom of truth themselves? They say about the very secrets of the Torah that there is no knowledge and perception revealed in this world, but merely empty words. Thus, they have come to force the Shechina<\/em> [Divinity] inside the King\u2019s palace. Woe unto them, for they have caused their souls harm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our sages said that the Torah mourns before the Creator: \u201cYour sons have made me a song in public-houses.\u201d But they do not even make of the Torah a semblance of a song, only frightening words to any listener that arise contempt and wrath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Furthermore, they wish to be rewarded like Pinhas, saying that they do this in complete faith. The writing says about them: \u201cForasmuch as this people draws near, with its mouth and with its lips they honor Me, but have removed their heart far from Me,\u201d and this is the reason for the ruin of the First Temple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The devil still dances among us precisely at the time of the Messiah, the time of the end of the secrets of the Torah. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts came as a fire that will not quench in my bones. Because of it, I have been awakened to disclose the robe to such an extent that they will know that there is wisdom in Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This has been among the primary reasons that made me come to this explanation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You must see in every purpose and in every goal that it is utterly simple. All the wit, cleverness, and the many issues form during the preparation until they reach the goal. For example, when one wishes to sit in a house, he needs the wit and knowledge in the form of the design, the form of the inventions, the quality and quantity of the rooms and the possessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The final goal is but a simple thing: to dwell there. This is the meaning of the words, \u201caccording to the beauty of a man, to dwell in the house.\u201d It is a simple thought, without any philosophizing and without wit, only a simple will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Know that all the sophistications in the knowledge are mostly mistakes that should fall before the truth. Yet, the truth itself is simple, without any wit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is a secret in this, that this is the iron wall that separates us from the Creator. There are things that are hidden because of their great height and depth, and there are things that are hidden because of their great subtlety, like flies in the air, which are too thin to be seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His light is so simple that the human mind, which feels only a tiny portion of an essence, simply does not perceive. It is like the smaller things from the measure needed for an actual tool to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is so because although not all of the depth of the height and the depth of the width are perceived, you can nonetheless perceive the proximate. 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