285) It is written about the mixed multitude, \u201cAnd the serpent was more cunning than any animal of the field,\u201d since the serpent was cunning to do evil more than all the animals, who are the idol-worshipping nations of the world. The mixed multitude are the children of the primordial serpent who seduced Eve with the tree of knowledge, and the mixed multitude were the filth that the serpent cast in Eve. The mixed multitude that mingled with the souls to which Eve gave birth are regarded as filth in regard to the souls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Out of that filth, which is the mixed multitude, came forth Cain. This is why he killed Abel, the shepherd, of whom it is written, \u201cFor he is also flesh.\u201d \u201cAlso\u201d is Abel; \u201cAlso\u201d is certainly Moses, and he killed him. That is, \u201cAlso,\u201d in Gematria, is Moses, and Moses is an incarnation of the soul of Abel. It follows that \u201cAlso\u201d implies Abel and Moses. This is why Abel was a shepherd like Moses, and Cain\u2014who killed him\u2014it follows that he killed Moses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He did that because of the mixed multitude that was mixed in his soul. He was also Adam\u2019s firstborn son, hence the filth was mixed in Cain\u2019s soul, and not in Abel\u2019s soul, since Cain was the firstborn son, who went out first after the sin of the tree of knowledge. This is why all of the filth of the serpent came out in him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
286) For this reason, because Moses wished to cover his father\u2019s nakedness, he took Jethro\u2019s daughter for his wife, as it is written about him, \u201cAnd the children of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law.\u201d Jethro is called Kenite because he parted from Cain, as it is written, \u201cAnd Heber the Kenite parted from Cain.\u201d Hence, although Cain killed Abel, who is Moses, Moses still returned to correct Cain, to whom the mixed multitude was attached, the nakedness of Adam \u200eHaRishon, due to the sin of the tree of knowledge. Moses wished to erase that filth, which is the nakedness of his father Adam \u200eHaRishon. This is why he took Jethro\u2019s daughter for a wife, since Jethro was an incarnation of Cain, for which he was called Kenite. By taking his daughter, he corrected him and repelled the filth from him, which is the mixed multitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And once he separated the mixed multitude from Cain\u2019s soul, he wished to make them repent, to cover the nakedness of his father, Adam \u200eHaRishon. The Creator adds a good thought to an act, and the Creator said to Moses, \u201cBeware of them, of that evil race, and I will conjoin your good thought\u2014of wanting to make them repent\u2014to an act.\u201d Those mixed multitude are the forces of separation that were in the tree of knowledge, for which the Creator warned him, as it is written, \u201cBut of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat.\u201d They are also the forces of separation in the sins of Moses and Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
287) Because of the mixed multitude, Israel were exiled and expelled from their land, as it is written, \u201cAnd He drove out the man.\u201d \u201cThe man\u201d implies Israel. Moses was expelled from his place due to the mixed multitude because he did not keep from them as the Creator had warned him, but instead wished to bring them closer to Kedusha. This is why he was not rewarded with entering the land of Israel and was buried outside the land, for because of them, he broke the Creator\u2019s words and sinned with the rock that he struck, since He told him, \u201cAnd speak to the rock,\u201d but he struck the rock. It is the mixed multitude who caused him that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is why the Creator adds a good thought to an act, since Moses would not receive the mixed multitude, to place in them the token of the covenant, except to cover his father\u2019s nakedness. This is why the Creator conjoined his good thought to an act. In return for that, the Creator told him, \u201cAnd I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.\u201d This came true in Moses, as it is written, \u201cThe children of Rehavia multiplied above,\u201d meaning they multiplied and became more than 600,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Creator said about the mixed multitude, \u201cHe who had sinned unto Me, I will blot him out of My book,\u201d for they are the descendants of Amalek, of whom it is written, \u201cBlot out the memory of Amalek.\u201d The mixed multitude also caused Israel to sin with the calf and the first two tablets of the testimony broke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
288) The verse \u201cAnd the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked\u201d also implies Israel. In the enslavement in Egypt, Israel knew that they were naked, for they were without the Torah there. It is written about them in the last exile, \u201cAnd you were naked and bare,\u201d since by the Torah and Mitzvot, Israel are rewarded with clothes for their souls. When they were without the Torah in the exile in Egypt, as well as in the last exile, their souls are necessarily naked, without any clothes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because of that, Job said \u201cnaked\u201d twice, about the two exiles: \u201cI came out of my mother\u2019s womb naked, and naked I shall return there.\u201d \u201cI came out … naked\u201d implies the exile in Egypt, and \u201cNaked I shall return there\u201d implies the last exile. That which was named \u201cMoses\u201d became in the eyes of the mixed multitude \u201cthere\u201d and \u201cmocked.\u201d This is why Job said, \u201cI shall return there.\u201d It implies that Moses is destined to be turned in the last exile among the mixed multitude from the name Moses [Moshe] to There [Shama]. That is, Moses walks among them to there. Job said about it, \u201cThe Lord gave,\u201d meaning He gave the Torah, \u201cAnd the Lord has taken away,\u201d meaning He took her once more in the last exile and she became hidden from Israel, \u201cBlessed be the name of the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
289) When the two tablets of the Torah broke, and the oral Torah was concealed, it is written about Israel, \u201cAnd they sewed fig-leaves.\u201d They were covered with several shells \u200eof the mixed multitude because they became naked [devoid] of Torah and covered themselves, so their nakedness would not be revealed, the places where the shells \u200ehave a grip. Their cover is the edges of the Tzitzit [fringe of a garment].<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is written on the straps of the Tefillin, \u201cAnd the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.\u201d However, regarding the Tzitzit, it is written, \u201cAnd they sewed fig-leaves.\u201d It is so because two kinds of covers were written for covering their nakedness, which came to them through the tree of knowledge: 1) the covers that they made by themselves, the fig-leaves, 2) the covers that the Creator made for them, the garments of skin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Therefore, when the writings imply the Israel after the breaking of the tablets, The<\/em> \u200eZohar<\/em> says that the cover of the fig-leaves implies the covering of the edges of the Tzitzit, which are instruments of Mitzva, thrown away after the doing of the Mitzva because there is no Kedusha \u200ein them at all. But the covering of garments of skin implies the straps of the Tefillin, which are instruments of Kedusha \u200ethat are concealed, and there is Kedusha \u200ein them even after their doing of the Mitzva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAnd made themselves girdles,\u201d as it is written, \u201cGird Your sword on the thigh, O Mighty One.\u201d This is the Shema reading, since the Shema reading is as a sword toward the outer ones, and it is girded at the thigh. It is written about it in the Shema reading, \u201cThe high praises of God in their mouth, and a double-edged sword in their hand.\u201d The Shema reading, which is called by the mouth, is like a sword. This is why it is written about it, \u201cAnd made themselves girdles.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 285) It is written about the mixed multitude, \u201cAnd the serpent was more cunning than any animal of the field,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":11756,"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-11792","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-zohar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n