551) \u201cBehold, I am sending an angel before you.\u201d The Assembly of Israel, the Shechina, said, \u201cMay he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth.\u201d It should have written, \u201cLove me,\u201d and not \u201cKiss me.\u201d However, kissing is clinging of spirit to spirit. This is why kissing is with the mouth, since the mouth is the outlet and the origin of the spirit. Hence, kisses are with the mouth, with love, attaching of spirit to spirit when they do not part from each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
552) For this reason, one whose soul comes out in a kiss clings to the spirit of the Creator in a spirit that does not part from Him. This is called \u201ckissing,\u201d and this is why the Assembly of Israel said, \u201cMay he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth,\u201d to attach spirit to spirit so they will not part from one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
553) \u201cFor your love is better than wine\u201d means the wine of Torah. Mochin<\/em> of ZA<\/em> is called \u201cTorah,\u201d and Mochin<\/em> of illumination of Hochma<\/em> is called \u201cwine.\u201d \u201cAnd wine which makes man’s heart glad\u201d is written about the wine of Torah. It is written about that, \u201cFor your love is better than wine, meaning it is better for the gladness of the heart than wine, which makes me glad more than anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kissing is with the lips. There are two discernments in the lips: 1) The upper lip is upper AVI<\/em>, which give pure Avir<\/em> there, which is light of Hassadim<\/em>, called Ruach<\/em> [spirit], in a never ending coupling, and in which the Yod<\/em> never leaves their Avir<\/em>. 2) The lower lip is YESHSUT<\/em>, in which the Yod<\/em> comes out of their Avir<\/em> and returns to being light of Hochma<\/em>, giving there illumination of Hochma<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although the illumination of Hassadim<\/em> of upper AVI<\/em> is actual GAR<\/em>, still ZA<\/em> needs illumination of Hochma<\/em>, and the light of Hassadim<\/em> of AVI<\/em> in him are only VAK<\/em> without a Rosh<\/em> due to the absence of illumination of Hochma<\/em>. However, once ZA<\/em> receives the Mochin<\/em> of YESHSUT<\/em>, illumination of Hochma<\/em>, the Hassadim<\/em> of AVI<\/em> become actual GAR<\/em> in him, just as they are in upper AVI<\/em> themselves, since now it, too, is completed in illumination of Hochma<\/em> and there is no flaw in him, just as in upper AVI<\/em>. Their illumination of Hassadim<\/em> is more important than the illumination of Hochma<\/em> in YESHSUT<\/em> because they are superior to them and to the ones who give to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMay he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth,\u201d to attach spirit to spirit. Illumination of Hassadim<\/em> is Ruach<\/em> in the upper lip, upper AVI<\/em>. The lower lip is illumination of Hochma<\/em> of YESHSUT<\/em>, which complements the Ruach<\/em> of the upper lip to make it GAR<\/em>, as in AVI<\/em> themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFor your love is better than wine\u201d means the wine of Torah, since because the lower lip shines there, too, which is illumination of Hochma<\/em> from YESHSUT<\/em>, which is called \u201cwine,\u201d your love, which is the Ruach<\/em> from the upper lip, has become good, since by that the Hassadim<\/em> have been made in GAR<\/em>. This is why the Shechina says in a coupling of Neshikin<\/em>, \u201cFor your love is better than wine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 554) \u201cJacob kissed Rachel, and raised his voice, and wept.\u201d When he was in clinging of the spirit in her, the heart could not bear and wept. It is written, \u201cAnd kissed him, and they wept,\u201d since the spirit did not cling to him at all. It is written about that, \u201cDeceitful are the kisses of an enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n One who kisses with love attaches spirit to spirit with adhesion of love. One who does not kiss with love is not in adhesion, but rather \u201cDeceitful,\u201d which is coarseness, since his spirit is not adhered to a kiss and he does not cling to it at all. This is why it is written, \u201cMay he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth,\u201d which is adhesion of spirit to spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 555) As long as the Creator goes in Israel, it is as though a spirit clings to a spirit. It is written about that, \u201cAnd you that cleave unto the Lord\u201d in all those manners of adhesion, and do not part from one another. When it is written, \u201cBehold, I am sending an angel before you,\u201d Moses knew that this was retirement from Israel. He said, \u201cIf Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 556) Above it, it is written, \u201cYou shall bring the first fruits of your soil into the house of the Lord your God. You are not to boil a kid [young goat] in its mother’s milk.\u201d This is so in order to not mix a lower matter with an upper one, so that the outer side will not suckle from the side within. The one without, the kid, is from the side of impurity, and the one within, its mother, is from the side of Kedusha<\/em> [holiness]. Its mother is the Assembly of Israel, Malchut<\/em>, which is called \u201cmother.\u201d Since the expansion of Malchut<\/em> is only through the shells, as it is written, \u201cAnd her legs go down to death.\u201d \u201cIn its mother’s milk\u201d means that those who should not, will not suckle from that side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 551) \u201cBehold, I am sending an angel before you.\u201d The Assembly of Israel, the Shechina, said, \u201cMay he kiss me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":11504,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"topic":[28],"class_list":["post-11642","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-zohar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n