425) It is written, \u201cAnd you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it.\u201d Is this customary with the holy Name? So it is, since there is not a name among the holy names of the Creator that does not perform miracles and great deeds, and elicits everything that the world needs, especially here, eliciting water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
426) It is written, \u201cHe struck the rock and the waters poured out.\u201d Who strikes for His name? A pointed hammer is apparent by its strikes, meaning a sharp man knows how to ask. However, in all the places, Tzur<\/em> [rock] is Gevura<\/em>, meaning Malchut<\/em> when she is discerned as Gevura<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When the Creator, ZA<\/em>, wishes to strike or to punish, this Gevura<\/em> awakens, and that Gevura<\/em> strikes and punishes, as it is written, \u201cHe struck the rock.\u201d It means that he struck the rock, and if the rock did not awaken and he struck where he should, water would not pour out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 427) However, it is written, \u201cYou have forgotten the Rock who begot you.\u201d \u201cForgotten\u201d means you have weakened it. But this cannot be there. Yet, of course this is so, for if the wicked knew that the rock was destined to awaken against them and to punish them, they would avoid sinning before it. However, it was a weakness in their eyes because they did not consider it and it did not consider their ways, to punish them promptly. It is written about that, \u201cYou have forgotten the Rock who begot you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 428) There is a rock and there is a rock. From the upper rock comes forth another rock. The upper rock is the rock of all rocks, the one who begot Israel, ZA<\/em>, as it is written, \u201cYou have forgotten the Rock who begot you,\u201d meaning Bina<\/em>, who begot Israel. This is so because from the upper rock, above, another rock comes out, and from the side of Ima<\/em>\u2014Bina<\/em>\u2014Gevura<\/em> comes out, Malchut<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 429) It is written, \u201cWho can speak of the mighty deeds of the Lord?\u201d What are the \u201cMighty deeds of the Lord\u201d? It is including the upper Ima<\/em> of everything, Bina<\/em>, where even though she is not judgment in and of herself, judgment is present from her side, because Gevura<\/em> is present from her side, Malchut<\/em> that is sweetened in Bina<\/em>. This is why she is called \u201cthe upper rock.\u201d And it is written, \u201cAnd forgot the God who gave you birth\u201d is the light of Aba<\/em>, upper Hesed<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 430) Wherever it writes \u201cwater,\u201d it indicates light of Hesed<\/em>. The Creator awakened in this rock, which is judgment, to impart water, Hesed<\/em>, for it is proper to come out only from Hesed<\/em>. This is the sign and the miracle of the Creator, that a rock, judgment, imparted Hassadim<\/em>. This is what David praised and said, \u201cWho turned the rock into a pool of water.\u201d The meaning of \u201cWho turned\u201d is that He turned it from judgment to Hesed<\/em>, for it is not the conduct of a rock to impart Hesed<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 431) For this reason He poured out water in the upper rock, Bina<\/em>, from the place below, from Malchut<\/em>. And what is the name of that one below? It is \u201ca rock,\u201d as it is written, \u201cYou shall thus bring forth water for them out of the rock.\u201d With what did this rock bring forth water? With the power of the upper rock, Bina<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 432) \u201cThe Rock! His work is perfect,\u201d meaning that rock has turned into doing the work of a perfect one. And who is he? Abraham, Hesed<\/em>, of whom it is written, \u201cWalk before Me and be you whole.\u201d This is, \u201cWho turned the rock into a pool of water,\u201d turning the act of judgment into an act of Hesed<\/em>. Thus, it means that his work is perfect, meaning Hesed<\/em>, and this is Abraham, who is Hesed<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 433) At that time the rock became perfect once more. At another time, a second one, when Moses wished to bring water out of this rock, he did not return to being perfect because of the iniquities of Israel. Then Moses was angry and said, \u201cYou have forgotten the Rock who begot you,\u201d meaning you have weakened it from what it was in the beginning. 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