Israel are called \u201csons of kings\u201d because anyone who crowns His name upon himself is called \u201ca king\u2019s son,\u201d as it is written, \u201cAnd sanctify yourselves and be holy, for I the Lord am holy,\u201d for anyone who sanctifies himself is called \u201choly\u201d because the Creator is called \u201choly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We should understand the meaning of \u201choly.\u201d In the Jerusalem Talmud (82 in Yevamot<\/em>), \u201cAnyone who retires himself from the pudendum is called \u2018holy.\u2019\u201d In Midrash Rabbah, VaYikra<\/em>, \u201cWherever you find a fence around the pudendum, you find Kedusha<\/em> [holiness],\u201d for Kadosh<\/em> [holy] means retired [separated]. That is, one must retire oneself from enjoying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And what is the name Kadosh<\/em> with regard to the Creator? After all, it cannot be said that there is reception for Himself in Him, for the Creator only gives. For this reason, man, too, must only give to the Creator. \u201cSanctify yourselves and be holy\u201d means that you should be only givers, \u201cFor I the Lord am holy,\u201d since the Creator is the giver. This is the meaning of Dvekut<\/em> [adhesion].<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thus, \u201cWherever you find a fence around the pudendum,\u201d for the pudendum is a place where it is forbidden to enjoy, as only in a place of Mitzva<\/em> [commandment] is it permitted to enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cGod made one opposite the other\u201d: Opposite the Shechina<\/em> [Divinity] there is a \u201cforeign woman\u201d called Klipa<\/em> [shell\/peel], and the Shechina<\/em> is called \u201cfaith above reason,\u201d which is bestowal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If a person acts with the aim to bestow contentment upon his Maker, it is considered that he unites with the Shechina<\/em>. If he acts in order to please himself then he is uniting with the foreign woman, whose aim is only to receive for herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The unification of the Creator with the Shechina<\/em> is that as the Creator only gives, so the Shechina<\/em>, who is Malchut<\/em>, all the desires extend from her to the lower ones by turning those desires into aiming to bestow. By this they cause the root of all the desires to be only to bestow. This is called \u201cunification,\u201d meaning that he unites two qualities into one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the meaning of \u201cMan and woman, if they are rewarded, the Shechina<\/em> is between them\u201d (Sotah<\/em> 17a). In other words, the quality of \u201cwoman\u201d is the opposite of the quality of \u201cgiver.\u201d Shechina<\/em> between them means that then it is evident that the Shochen<\/em> [dweller] is present in the place of those desires. At that time, the desires are called Shechina<\/em> because the Shochen<\/em>, meaning the Holy One, can unite there, since there is equivalence, called Dvekut<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For this reason, wherever one retires from enjoying and causes unification, you find in it Kedusha<\/em>, since the upper light can be there because the Kelim<\/em> [vessels] can receive the light of the Creator called Kedusha<\/em>, for the Kedusha<\/em> is present only in a place of purity. \u201cPurity\u201d means purity of qualities, and then the Kedusha<\/em> is present in a place of purity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, sometimes, \u201cI the Lord, who dwells with them in the midst of their Tuma\u2019a<\/em> [impurity],\u201d meaning that even when they still do not have Kelim<\/em> that are ready to be in equivalence, in order to assist a person in achieving this, he must be aided from above. This is the meaning of Lo Lishma<\/em>, that the light in it reforms him. That light is called \u201cThe Lord, who dwells with them in the midst of their Tuma\u2019a<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n This pertains specifically to one who wants to achieve Lishma<\/em> but cannot overcome his body. Hence, he is given that light so he can defeat the will to receive and walk in the way of the Creator, which is bestowal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By this we will understand the verse, \u201cAnd now if you surely listen to My voice and keep My covenant, you will be unto Me a Segula<\/em> [remedy\/virtue] out of all the nations, and you will be unto Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.\u201d These are the words that the Creator speaks to the children of Israel. 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