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377) It is a Mitzva<\/em> [commandment] to set aside cities of refuge for those who have killed because that Egyptian, which you killed in Egypt\u2014in whom there was the primordial serpent, and all his camps, which were surrounding him\u2014you killed him prematurely, and not for fear of his pursuers. In your youth, several women, who are the shells, pursued you in several places, and the Creator gave you cities of refuge to be saved from them, which are the gates of repentance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

378) It is so because you are the son of Yod<\/em>–Hey<\/em>, since Moses was at the degree of the Vav<\/em>, ZA<\/em>, the son of AVI<\/em>, who are HB<\/em>, Yod<\/em>–Hey<\/em>. Once you repented in the bottom Hey<\/em> of HaVaYaH<\/em>, you rose to Bina<\/em> and were rewarded there with Yod<\/em>–Hey<\/em>–Vav<\/em>, which is the tree of life, since Bina<\/em> is called \u201cthe living God,\u201d and ZA<\/em> who ascends to Bina<\/em> is called \u201cthe tree of life.\u201d And for her, you are rewarded with the letter bottom Hey<\/em>, Malchut<\/em>, since you have admitted yourself into repentance after her, to return her to your Master and to elevate her from the exile and not receive reward for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

379) The Creator placed His name in you. And because your thought was to the Cause of Causes, Keter<\/em>, He placed His thought in you, which is Hochma<\/em> Yod<\/em>–He<\/em>–Vav<\/em>–He<\/em>, HaVaYaH<\/em>, which is MA<\/em> in Gematria<\/em> (45). This is so because Hochma<\/em> has the letters Kaf<\/em>–Het<\/em> [Koah<\/em>, force] Mem<\/em>–Hey<\/em> [MA<\/em>, meaning the power of MA<\/em>], where through the name MA<\/em>, the middle line in the Mochin<\/em>, the Hochma<\/em> appeared. And the Cause of Causes unites these letters in you to recognize and to know Him in those letters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

380) Once he was included in the Thought, which is GAR<\/em>, he continues to explain how he received the rest of the six Sefirot<\/em>, since you were doing Hesed<\/em> [grace\/mercy] with the Shechina, for because all your Mitzvot<\/em> are to keep a Hassid<\/em> who is being Hassid<\/em>-like with his Maker, He has given you the quality of Hesed<\/em>. And you kept the negative Mitzvot<\/em> [commandments to refrain from certain actions], and had to overcome your inclination and tie it under your hand, but you did not try in this Mitzva<\/em>, except to tie SAM<\/em> under the hands of the Creator, and to tie the mate of SAM<\/em>, the wicked maidservant, under the hand of her mistress, Malchut<\/em>, they and all the appointees, and all their camps. For this reason the Creator has given you His quality of Gevura<\/em> [might] to be your aide, so that SAM<\/em> and his mate, and all their appointees and camps would shiver and fear you, and would be chained under your hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

381) And because you repented with a token of a covenant, Yesod<\/em>, Bina<\/em>\u2014the letters Yod<\/em>–Hey<\/em>–Vav<\/em>\u2014came down to bond with the righteous, Yesod<\/em>, for you. This is why the Creator gave you His covenant of righteous, Yesod<\/em>. Also, because you did everything with a good thought, accordingly, the explicit Name will come down upon you and will descend on you from a thought, GAR<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

382) And because you try each day in prayer with both your lips to praise your Master in the verse, \u201cMy Lord, open my lips,\u201d in both your lips, in Prophets and in Hagiographa, and in every kind of song and tune in the prayer, the Creator brings them down in both your lips, which are NH<\/em>. It is even more so with your degree, the middle pillar, Tifferet<\/em>, in which you delved all your days in truth. The Creator gave it to you to raise you in it in a true Torah, which consists of all the qualities and letters, which are HGT<\/em> NHY<\/em>, in the explicit name, HaVaYaH<\/em>, which is GAR<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

383) It is so because before you repented, you were only in the tree of good and evil. At first, your name was \u201ca servant\u201d and \u201ca lad,\u201d as it is written, \u201cand behold, the lad was crying.\u201d A loyal servant is as it is written, \u201cNot so is My servant Moses; he is faithful in all My household.\u201d And that wicked one, the partner of the servant, caused you to sin with the rock because the scepter that was given to you was from the tree of good and evil, from Matat and SAM<\/em>, where Matat is good and SAM<\/em> is bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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