244) The eleventh commandment is to give tithing [10% of the produce, Maaser] from the land. \u200eThere are two commandments here: to give tithing from the land, and to bring the first fruits of \u200ethe tree. It is written about the tithing from the land that was permitted to Adam HaRishon, \u200e\u200e\u201cEvery plant yielding seed,\u201d and about the first fruit of the tree that was permitted to Adam \u200eHaRishon, it is written, \u201cAnd every tree which has fruit yielding seed.\u201d Why do these verses \u200eobligate us to give tithing and the first fruit, to give to the Creator and to not eat them, which is \u200ethe opposite of the meaning?\u200e<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eating is sorting of the holy sparks out of the shells. Through eating, the holy sparks in the food \u200econnect to man\u2019s soul into a flesh of his flesh, and the waste in the food comes out of his body. \u200eFinally, during one\u2019s life, he collects all the holy sparks related to the completion of man\u2019s soul, \u200ewithout which his completeness would be deficient. It is written in The Zohar<\/em> that Adam \u200eHaRishon was not permitted to eat meat, as it is written, \u201cBehold, I have given you every plant \u200eyielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, …it shall be food for you,\u201d and nothing more \u200ethan that, no meat.\u200e<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, when he sinned and the evil inclination was absorbed in his body, Noah was told, \u201cAs \u200ethe green plant, I have given you all, even meat.\u201d Adam HaRishon was born complete. All the \u200eneeded wholeness was already created in him, with respect to animals, as it is written, \u201cOut of \u200ethe ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought \u200ethem to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, \u200ethat was its name.\u201d\u200e<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, he fully attained each of the animals\u2019 names because they were sorted out for \u200ehim in full. Hence, he was not given animals for sorting through eating, as they were already \u200esorted for him by the Emanator. Only the still and the vegetative were lacking scrutiny, hence \u200ehe was given only the yield of the land to eat and to sort, to collect the holy sparks out of them, \u200ewhich were needed to complete him.\u200e<\/p>\n\n\n\n But after the sin of the tree of knowledge, all the scrutinies were corrupted once more, and as \u200ethe organs of his soul fell into the shells, all the animals were corrupted along with him and had \u200eto be sorted out once more. This is why Noah was also given animals to eat and to sort out, as \u200ewell as the generations following him.\u200e<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adam HaRishon was created in the image of God, which are the Mochin in the four portions of \u200ethe Tefillin, and they are his soul. However, after he was born in this holy Neshama [soul], \u200ethrough good deeds he was rewarded with scrutinizing and raising MAN, obtaining Haya, and \u200eafterwards, on the Sabbath day, with Yechida, as well, since the upper brightness was lost only \u200eafter the Sabbath. Thus, he was permitted the tithing and the first fruit. Moreover, through \u200eeating the tithing and the first fruit, he was rewarded with scrutiny and raising MAN until he \u200ewas rewarded with Haya and Yechida.\u200e<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, after the sin of the tree of knowledge, when all the scrutinies were corrupted once \u200eagain and the evil inclination was absorbed in the Guf [body], the tithing and the first fruit were \u200eforbidden for us due to the evil inclination within us, for fear that we would blemish the upper \u200eholiness in them. Instead, we must give them to the priests and the Levites. When we keep these \u200ecommandments of tithing and first fruit as we are commanded, we will have the strength to \u200eraise MAN and to extend Mochin of Haya on the Sabbath day, as Adam HaRishon extended \u200ethrough his eating of the tithing and the first fruit by himself.\u200e<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the eleventh commandment, to tithe the tithing of the land, since once we have drawn \u200ethe light of Neshama by wearing Tefillin, we must raise MAN through the two commandments \u200eof tithing and first fruit to draw Mochin of Haya. It follows that Adam HaRishon extended \u200eMochin of Haya by eating the tithing and the first fruit by himself, but we, who are not \u200epermitted to eat them due to the evil inclination in our Guf, were given the commandment of \u200egiving them to the priests and the Levites instead. By that, we, too, were given the strength to \u200edraw those Mochin. The text brings evidence that the writing speaks specifically of tithing and \u200efirst fruit because it is written, \u201cI have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface \u200eof all the earth.\u201d It is also written, \u201cTo the sons of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in \u200eIsrael.\u201d And as there it concerns the tithing, so in Adam HaRishon it concerns the tithing. We \u200ealso learn it from the verse \u201cThus, all the tithe of the land, of the seed of the land or of the fruit \u200eof the tree, is the Lord’s.\u201d\u200e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 244) The eleventh commandment is to give tithing [10% of the produce, Maaser] from the land. \u200eThere are two commandments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":7520,"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-11750","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-zohar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n