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401) The oath of the Creator is the Shechina, the only daughter. It is with good reason that they determined that three people break an oath, for it is the Shin<\/em> [] of Shabbat [Sabbath], where the three branches of the Shin<\/em> are three patriarchs, HGT<\/em>, and the thick line that connects the three branches from below is the only daughter, an oath that partakes in the three branches in the Shin<\/em>. Malchut<\/em> is called \u201can oath\u201d when she is connected with HGT<\/em> of ZA<\/em>, who\u2014above his Chazeh<\/em>\u2014is the fourth leg of the upper throne. This is what the Shin<\/em> of Shabbat implies. Hence, three people\u2014corresponding to HGT<\/em>\u2014can break the oath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

402) The oath applies only to something that is real. A vow applies even to something that is unreal. Vows are more important than oaths because anyone who takes an oath swears in the King himself, in Malchut<\/em>, while one who makes a vow, it is as though he vows in the King\u2019s life, Bina<\/em>, from which life\u2014Mochin<\/em>\u2014extends to Malchut<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In GAR<\/em>, Hochma<\/em> can shine without clothing of Hassadim<\/em>. But in ZAT<\/em>, Hochma<\/em> does not shine without Hassadim<\/em>. The oath applies only to something that is real because the oath, Malchut<\/em> that draws Hochma<\/em> above the Chazeh<\/em> of ZA<\/em>, is fourth to the patriarchs and does not exist there for lack of Hassadim<\/em>. Instead, she must descend from the Chazeh<\/em> and receive Hassadim<\/em> from Yesod<\/em> of ZA<\/em> to clothe the Hochma<\/em> in them, and then the oath applies, meaning exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This screen of Yesod<\/em>, which draws Hassadim<\/em>, is called \u201csomething real,\u201d coarseness. But a vow, which is Bina<\/em> and GAR<\/em>, applies even to something that is unreal, which does not need a screen for bestowal of Hassadim<\/em>, since in GAR<\/em>, Hochma<\/em> can shine even without Hassadim<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

403) The one who each day and always renews the act of creation will innovate innovations for us, since it is written, \u201cThere is nothing new under the sun,\u201d who is ZA<\/em>. However, there are innovations above the sun. In the secrets of Torah, it is written, \u201cFor the Lord God of hosts is a sun and shield,\u201d there are shining and protecting even under the sun in the world of Atzilut<\/em>, and not in the world of the layperson, meaning the three worlds BYA<\/em>, where there are the shells that deny His uniqueness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And even though it is written, \u201cGod has made them one opposite the other,\u201d meaning that the shells are the work of God, since from out of the darkness, from the shells, comes out light\u2014by people overcoming them, they are still regarded as the world of the uneducated, and the light of the sun, ZA<\/em> of Atzilut<\/em>, does not extend to protect them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

404) The next world, Bina<\/em>, is above the sun, the middle pillar, ZA<\/em>. For this reason, vows from there are more important than an oath and apply to something that is unreal, in which the screen does not extend Hassadim<\/em>. And because an oath, this world, which is Malchut<\/em>, exists only on Yesod<\/em>, which carries the screen of Hassadim<\/em>, which is real, as it is written, \u201cA righteous is the foundation of the world,\u201d it follows that it applies only to something that is real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

405) We swear by Yesod<\/em>, as it is written, \u201cAs the Lord lives, lie down until the morning.\u201d Yesod<\/em> is called \u201cliving.\u201d The bottom Shechina, which is called \u201cthe Western Wall,\u201d Malchut<\/em>, is its dwelling place, since it is a mound to which everyone turns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A wall comprises the letters Kaf<\/em>–Vav<\/em> Tav<\/em>–Lamed<\/em> [Kotel<\/em>]. HaVaYaH<\/em>, ZA<\/em>, is 26 in Gematria<\/em>. The Shechina is certainly the mound of ZA<\/em>, after the verse, \u201cHis locks are curled, and black as a raven,\u201d where on every curl there are mounds over mounds of laws. The Dalet<\/em> of Ehad<\/em> [\u201cone\u201d in the Shema reading] is a mound to which everyone turns, Malchut<\/em>. The tip of the Dalet<\/em> [\u05d3] is Yesod<\/em>, which distinguishes her from the shape of the Reish<\/em> [\u05e8], gripping between the Aleph<\/em>–Het<\/em> of Ehad<\/em>, ZA<\/em>, and the Dalet<\/em> of Ehad<\/em>, Malchut<\/em>, as it is written, \u201cFor everything that is in the heavens and the earth.\u201d \u201cFor everything\u201d is the name Yesod<\/em>, who clings to ZA<\/em>, called heaven, and to Malchut<\/em>, called earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

406) The world stands on the Yesod<\/em> [foundation], on a pillar whose name is \u201crighteous,\u201d as it is written, \u201cA righteous is the foundation of the world.\u201d He is the covenant of the oath, Malchut<\/em>, since the Aleph<\/em>–Het<\/em> Dalet<\/em> stand on him, the heaven and earth, as it is written, \u201cIf My covenant be not day and night, I have not put the ordinances of heaven and earth.\u201d Aleph<\/em>–Het<\/em> are heaven, ZA<\/em>, and Dalet<\/em> is earth, Malchut<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

407) The covenant, Yesod<\/em>, is gripped between heaven and earth, ZON<\/em>, and in it is the oath, Malchut<\/em>. It is written about it, \u201cAs the Lord lives, lie down until the morning,\u201d since the oath depends on Yesod<\/em>, who is called \u201cliving.\u201d One who swears in His name in vain, it is as though he destroyed the structure of heaven and earth and reverted the world to chaos, for if a person removes the tip, Yesod<\/em>, from the Dalet<\/em> of Ehad<\/em>, Malchut<\/em>, it will leave Aher<\/em> [other], SAM<\/em>, in whose place there is falsehood. It is as though one builds heaven and earth on falsehood. Truth stands, and a lie does not stand and will ultimately be revoked. Thus, he destroyed the building and the heaven and earth fell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

408) One who swears falsely, it is as though, as it is written, \u201cHe threw the glory of Israel from heaven to earth.\u201d The Shechina is called earth, and Tifferet<\/em> [glory] is called heaven. He is with her and did not part from it even in her falling, to keep in her the words \u201cI am the Lord, it is My name, and I will not give My honor to another.\u201d Truth, who is ZA<\/em>, fell with her, as it is written, \u201cAnd truth shall be cast to the ground.\u201d Thus, the cause of Malchut\u2019s<\/em> fall also causes the fall of ZA<\/em>. This is why one who swears in vain causes the fall of heaven and earth, and one who swears in truth keeps the verse, \u201cTruth shall grow out of the earth,\u201d which is the middle pillar, ZA<\/em>, which is called \u201ctruth,\u201d in which the building stands. Thus, the construction of heaven and earth is established on truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

409) And because the oath is the structure of this world, Malchut<\/em>, it cannot exist without Yesod<\/em> [a foundation], something that is real, which carries the screen on which the coupling of Hassadim<\/em> comes out. A vow is the next world, Bina<\/em>. It is higher than an oath and applies to things that are unreal, since Bina<\/em> does not need a Yesod<\/em> on which to exist, which is a covenant, in which there is coupling, since in GAR<\/em> the Hochma<\/em> does not need Hassadim<\/em> to clothe in. This is why on Yom Kippur<\/em> [Day of Atonement], which is the next world, Bina<\/em>, in which they set up the Kol Nidrey<\/em> [all the vows] prayer the coupling is forbidden because the vow is from Bina<\/em> and there is no coupling of Yesodot<\/em> in Bina<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

410) The letter of the covenant, Yod<\/em>, is in Bina<\/em>, Yesod<\/em> of Bina<\/em>. It is the crown of a book of Torah, which is a righteous, Yesod<\/em> of ZA<\/em>. There is neither eating nor drinking in the next world, nor is there coupling. Rather, the righteous sit with their crowns on their heads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

411) Because there is no use of this world, Malchut<\/em>, in the crown on the head of a righteous, which applies only in Bina<\/em>, all who use the crown pass away from the world. This is so because the crown in this world is below the Yesod<\/em> and is not on the head of the righteous. The points are for using the letters, but in the next world, Bina<\/em>, there is no use for the letters, which imply to ZON<\/em>. For this reason, there are no dots [punctuation marks] in letters in a book of Torah, but tags that extend from Bina<\/em>, and they are a crown at the top of the letters, which are ZON<\/em>. For this reason, one who uses a book of Torah passes away from the world. And so they say of one who studies the laws that one who uses the crown passes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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