1) \u201cA prayer of Habakkuk the prophet over whims.\u201d What is the difference for which it writes \u201cA prayer of Habakkuk the prophet\u201d more than all the other prophets in the world? It is not written about them, \u201cA prayer of Isaiah the prophet\u201d or \u201cOf Jeremiah\u201d or Ezekiel or Hosea or any other prophet in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2) Elisha was awarded in this world what no other prophet was awarded, other than Moses. It is written, \u201cAnd there came a day, and Elisha passed over to Shunem, and there was a great woman there.\u201d What is a great woman? She was great in actions, the whole household was praised because of her, and she is the landlady. And because her husband was not at home, to be the prominent one in the house, he was not mentioned, but she was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3) \u201cThere was a great woman there\u201d means she is greater than all other women in the world. This is so because when the rest of the women in the world see a guest, they regret it and push him, much less spend money on him. But this one was delighted with a guest, spending money on him. All the more so, when she saw Elisha she was delighted about him. Hence, all the praise is for the woman, since the guest in the house is the woman\u2019s. This is why it is written, \u201cAnd there was a great woman there,\u201d greater than all other women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4) \u201cAnd she said to her husband, \u2018Behold now, I know that this is a holy man of God.\u2019\u201d How did she know that Elisha was a holy man? She put a white sheet in his bed and never saw nocturnal emission on it. Also, there was never a fly on his table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5) Why is it different, that it says that she did not see nocturnal emission in him? After all, many people in the world do not see nocturnal emission. Also, why is it written, \u201cBehold now, I know,\u201d about what was said, that there was never a fly on his table? Did she know and none other? After all, all those who saw him eating at his table knew like her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
6) Yet, what she said, \u201cBehold now, I know,\u201d is what happened. She knew and none other since she would fix his bed when he laid in it at night and when he rose in the morning. And what was said, that she put a white sheet on his bed, so it was, and by that she knew, since usually, when one rises in the morning, the sheet he slept in has a foul smell. But while she lifted the sheet from the bed of this one, the sheet would emit fragrances like the fragrances in the Garden of Eden. She said, \u201cIf he were not holy and his Master\u2019s holiness were not on him, a holy scent would not come up from the sheet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
7) For this reason, he should retire from the house, since one cannot be so careful in the house. However, she said, \u201cLet us make a small attic for him and put there a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp,\u201d as these four are the correction of the assembly of Israel, which is Malchut<\/em>, who is called \u201can attic,\u201d as it is written, \u201cAnd Hezekiah turned his face to the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8) A bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp. The order of the writing is not as the order of the use, since a chair is required first, then a table, then a lamp, and then a bed. Why did she say \u201cbed\u201d first? It is because she was more fond of the bed than of everything\u2014and one puts what one is fond of first. She was fond of it because she saw upper sanctity in the bed more than in all the others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9) \u201cOne day he came there, and he turned into the attic and rested there.\u201d \u201cOne day,\u201d what is that day? It is the good day of Rosh Hashanah<\/em>, in which the barren women of the world are counted and the people of the world are counted. Elisha called the Shunammite and said, \u201cBehold, you have been careful for us with all this care. For this reason, I must scrutinize this day in the judgments of the world, since the Creator judges the world on this day. And because I have retired alone in this place, in the attic you have made for me, I must regard the judgments of the world, since one who parts alone on judgment day, even if he is worthy, he is caught first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 10) \u201cAnd what can be done for you? Would you be spoken for to the king or to the captain of the army?\u201d Is this needed for a woman, who does not go out and does not go to the king\u2019s palace? However, this day caused all the people in the world to be placed in judgment, and on that day, the Creator is called \u201ca King,\u201d a \u201cKing of Judgment.\u201d This is why he told her, \u201cIf it is the high King that you need, to atone your actions, I will speak and ask on your behalf.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 11) \u201cAnd she said, \u2018I dwell among my own people.\u2019\u201d What is she saying? When the judgment hangs in the world, one should not part from the collective by himself. He will not be mentioned above and he will not be known alone. This is so because when the judgment hangs in the world, those who are known and are inscribed alone, though they are righteous, they are caught first. Hence, one must never retire from the people because the Creator\u2019s mercies are always on the whole people together. This is why she said, \u201cI dwell among my own people,\u201d and I do not wish to part from them, as I have been doing thus far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12) \u201cAnd Gehazi said, \u2018But she has no son.\u2019\u201d Elisha said to her, \u201cCertainly, the time is right for you to be delivered with a son, since the day causes.\u201d On Rosh Hashanah<\/em> [Hebrew New Year\u2019s Day], the barren are counted. \u201cAnd he said, \u2018At this time next year you will embrace a son\u2019 … and the woman conceived and bore a son.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Afterwards, that son died. Why did he die? It was because the son was given to her and not to her husband, and he was tied from the place of the female, and one who is tied to a female, death is his fate. How do we know that he was given to her? Because it is written, \u201cYou will embrace a son.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 13) It is written about Abraham, \u201cI will surely return unto you,\u201d and not to her. Indeed, to you, he was tied to you and not to the female, since one who comes from the side of the female, death catches up with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cShe went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God,\u201d since she saw higher Kedusha<\/em> [holiness] there, more than in all of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 14) \u201cAnd said unto her, \u2018Are you well? Is your man well?\u2019\u201d This means that she was the lady of the house, since he greeted her before he greeted her husband. Moreover, she followed him, the prophet, and not her husband. \u201cAnd Gehazi came near to push her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 15) \u201cAnd the man of God said, \u2018Let her alone, for her soul is bitter within her.\u2019\u201d What is the difference for which here the text calls him \u201cman of God,\u201d and when he was in the city it called him Elisha? Here he is indeed the man of God, for here is his place, and not in the city, and not at a time when the sons of the prophets were before him. This is why he was not called \u201cman of God,\u201d but Elisha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 16) \u201cAnd the Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me.\u201d It is written, \u201cAnd the Lord showered Sodom.\u201d \u201cThe Lord\u201d means He and His courthouse. This is the courthouse below, Malchut<\/em>. It is written, \u201cAnd [he] has not told me.\u201d What is the reason that Elisha did not know? The Creator said, \u201cHow will I kill this one? If I tell him, he will not die because it is his gift.\u201d And he prayed for him and did not let him die. But he should die, of course, since we learned that it is written, \u201cYou will embrace a son,\u201d so he was tied to the place of the female, and death is caused from the place of the female. This is why he did not tell him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 17) \u201cAnd he said to Gehazi, \u2018Gird up your loins … and lay my staff on the lad’s face,\u2019\u201d meaning that the miracle had parted from him because he was not worthy of it. \u201cAnd the lad\u2019s mother said, \u2018As the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.\u2019\u201d Why did she so plead him to go himself when Gehazi was going? She knew the ways of that wicked one Gehazi, that he is not worthy of a miracle being executed by him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 18) \u201cAnd put his mouth on his mouth and his eyes on his eyes and his hands on his hands, and he stretched himself on him; and the flesh of the child became warm.\u201d Why did Elisha do so? Elisha looked and knew that the place of the female to which he was now tied is what caused him to die. Hence, \u201cHe put his mouth on his mouth and his eyes on his eyes to tie him to another place, a high one, the place of the male, where there is life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 19) But he could not uproot him from the place of the female to which he was tied from the beginning, until he evoked another spirit from above and was tied to the high place, and brought his soul back to him. Had he not done so, he would never have been revived. \u201cAnd the lad sneezed seven times.\u201d It did not amount to more than seven, which correspond to the seventy years of his life, as it is written, \u201cThe days of our years in them are seventy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 20) This is Habakkuk the prophet, of whom it is written, \u201cYou will embrace a son.\u201d Habakkuk is from the word Hibuk<\/em> [embrace]. Thus, he should have been called Havuk<\/em> [embraced]; why is he called Habakkuk, which means two embraces? One embrace is of his mother, and one embrace is of Elisha, who embraced him when he revived him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He had two embraces\u2014from the side of his mother and from the side of the prophet. One embrace from the place on which he was initially dependent, the place of the female, and another embrace, which elevated him to the upper degrees, to the place of the male. Those two embraces are included in the embrace of his mother and the embrace of the prophet. This is why he was called Habakkuk, which means two Hibukim<\/em> [embraces].<\/p>\n\n\n\n 21) \u201cA prayer of Habakkuk the prophet over whims.\u201d What is the prayer that is written here? It is the place to which he was tied in the beginning, from his mother\u2019s side. It is the prayer of the hand, the Nukva<\/em> of ZA<\/em>. \u201cFor whims\u201d means that on that day, to which he was tied, which was the beginning of the year, the whims of the world were hung before the Creator. And Gevura<\/em>, which is the Nukva<\/em>, was governing. This is why that prayer, the Nukva<\/em>, tied to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 22) \u201cA prayer of Habakkuk\u201d means \u201cfor Habakkuk,\u201d for the two Hibukim<\/em> [embraces] that the prophet made for him, as it is written, \u201cLord, I have heard the report of You and I am afraid.\u201d When the spirit of the prophet awakened upon him\u2014meaning the male\u2014during his embrace over the spirit of the female, which is a prayer that he had from his mother\u2019s embrace, he feared and was startled lest the judgments of the Nukva<\/em> would return to him. This is why he said, \u201cLord, I have heard the report of You and I am afraid.\u201d It is like the allegory that one who was bitten by a dog is startled by its voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 23) \u201cO Lord, revive Your work in the midst of the years.\u201d Who is \u201cYour work\u201d? He said about himself that he is His work. \u201cRevive … in the midst of the years\u201d means give me life for Your work among the upper years, which are the Sefirot<\/em>. \u201cRevive him\u201d means so he will not die as in the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 24) \u201cFor whims,\u201d as it is written, \u201cA whim of David,\u201d which is singing and praising. This is so because there were various praises before the prophet, with which to instill the spirit of prophecy over them. It is written about it, \u201cAnd you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the stage, tambourine and flute before them.\u201d And it is written, \u201cAnd now bring me a minstrel.\u201d It is all the more so with Habakkuk, who needed contentment more than anyone, to sweeten that place, the Nukva<\/em>, to which he was tied in the beginning, to extend upon him the spirit of prophecy. It is similar with all the prophets, except Moses, who surpassed all the prophets in the world, happy is he.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 25) When Israel came out of Egypt, their spirit was broken within them, and they heard the praises of the angels, but they could not rejoice. When all the camps of angels and the Merkavot<\/em> [assemblies\/chariots] went out with the Shechina, they all raised their voices in praise and songs before the Creator, and the Creator awakened the spirit of Israel and they heard the praises of the angels, and their spirit stood within them, for it did not leave them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 26) When Israel went out of Egypt, they tasted the taste of death, and the Creator healed them, as it is written, \u201cAnd the Lord walks before them by day.\u201d All the roads smelled of healing, and they came to their bodies and they were healed. And from the voice of the praises that they heard, they were glad and their spirit was made content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 27) Pharaoh and all of his men followed Israel, accompanying them until they left the land of Egypt. 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