418) \u201cAnd no shrub of the field was yet in the earth … for the Lord had not showered rain upon the earth.\u201d \u201cAnd no shrub of the field\u201d are large trees after they were planted but were still small. \u201cAnd no shrub of the field was yet\u201d does not mean that they did not exist but that they were still small.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
419) Adam and Eve were created side by side. Why weren\u2019t they created face-to-face? It is because it is written, \u201cFor the Lord had not showered rain upon the earth,\u201d and the coupling of ZON was not yet as it should be. When Adam and Eve of below were established and were returned to face-to-face, they were established as face-to-face above, as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, Adam and Eve were two Partzufim because Eve was regarded as Adam\u2019s left line and was not a Partzuf in and of herself, since the coupling of ZON, who beget them was still incomplete, as it is written, \u201cFor the Lord had not showered rain upon the earth,\u201d meaning that the coupling of ZON was still not in its place. This is so because the Lord is ZA, earth is his Nukva, and ZON were not established face-to-face before Adam and Eve were established face-to-face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The reason for it is that there are two Iburim [pl. of Ibur (conception)] for each degree. In the first Ibur he obtains VAK without a Rosh, and in the second Ibur he obtains the Gadlut. In the first Ibur, each upper one raises its lower one to it and corrects it. But in the second Ibur, the lower one rises to its upper one by itself, by raising MAN. It is so because the first Ibur occurs when the upper one obtains the first Gadlut, which is still not face-to-face, but in the posterior \u200eMochin\u200e, which returns to it the letters ELEH that fell from it. They come with its lower one for then the lower one rises along with them because it is attached to the letters ELEH. Thus, in the first Ibur, the upper one raises the lower one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once the lower one receives Katnut there \u200eand wishes to receive the Mochin, it then rises for MAN to the upper one by itself. By that, the upper one makes a coupling and draws the second Gadlut, correcting the upper one with a coupling face-to-face, giving Mochin \u200eto the lower one. Thus, as long as the lower one did not rise for MAN to the upper one to receive there the Mochin \u200eof face-to-face, the upper one is in posterior \u200eMochin\u200e, too. And because the lower one is the cause and the reason for the elicitation of the Mochin \u200eof face-to-face in the upper one, it is considered that the lower one precedes the upper one because the spiritual first and next mean cause and consequence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
420) How do we know that? We learn it from the tabernacle, as it is written, \u201cThe tabernacle was erected,\u201d indicating that another tabernacle was erected along with it, a tabernacle of above, which is the Nukva. The tabernacle above was not erected before the tabernacle below was erected. Here, too, when it was erected below, when Adam and Eve obtained face-to-face, it was erected above, meaning ZON of above obtained the face-to-face. And because it was still not established above, meaning that ZON were still not established in face-to-face, Adam and Eve were still not created face-to-face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He proves that ZON were still not face-to-face, as it is written, \u201cFor the Lord God had not showered rain upon the earth,\u201d indicating that they did not have a coupling face-to-face because \u201cThe Lord God\u201d is ZA, and earth is the Nukva. This is why the text ends, \u201cAnd there is no man,\u201d meaning that it was not as it should be, face-to-face, but in two Partzufim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
421) When Eve was completed, when she was sowed off and was established with him face-to-face, Adam was completed. Adam was not completed prior to that because Eve is regarded as the lower one compared to Adam; hence, she is the reason for the elicitation of Adam\u2019s Mochin. Thus far, the letter Samech was not written in the portion because Samech indicates the Nukva, and she was not yet included in Adam, in two Partzufim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The reason why it was said, \u201cThus far, the letter Samech was not written in the portion,\u201d and it was not said, \u201cIn the Torah\u201d since in the previous portion, there is the letter Samech, as it is written, \u201cSovev [surrounding] the whole earth,\u201d and only in this portion of Adam\u2019s creation there is no Samech until it is written, \u201cAnd closed [Yisgor] flesh in her stead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although Adam \u200eHaRishon \u200ehad a Nukva before Eve was established, whose name was the first Lilit, meaning that he had a Samech before Eve was created, but Samech means assistance, the assistance of ZON above, once they were returned to face-to-face. It is so because then face-to-face are considered that the male and female became adjacent to one another, strengthening one another, for as the Nukva is strengthened by ZA with the light of Hassadim, ZA is strengthened by the Nukva with the illumination of Hochma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is written, \u201cAdjacent forever and ever, made in truth and uprightness.\u201d \u201cAdjacent,\u201d since the male and female are adjacent to each other, face-to-face. This explains that Lilit was not called Samech because she did not cause assistance above, meaning Mochin \u200eof face-to-face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
422) \u201cFor the Lord God had not showered rain upon the earth,\u201d meaning that ZON were still not face-to-face because one supported the other. ZON face-to-face support Adam and Eve to be face-to-face. Likewise, Adam and Eve face-to-face support the ZON to be face-to-face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The lower world, Adam and Eve, dwellers of this world, when it was established and Adam and Eve were returned to being face-to-face and were established, the Samech was above, and ZON, too, were returned to being face-to-face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prior to it, before ZON returned to being face-to-face, the work below was not as it should be. That is, the work and construction of Adam and Eve face-to-face could not be carried out because \u201cThe Lord God had not showered rain upon the earth,\u201d for ZON were still not face-to-face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thus, they are dependent on each other. ZON are dependent on the face-to-face of Adam and Eve, and vice versa\u2014Adam and Eve are dependent on ZON. The face-to-face of ZON are dependent only on Adam\u2019s raising of MAN, and the face-to-face of Adam are dependent on the Mochin \u200eof face-to-face of ZON. The Mochin \u200eof face-to-face of ZON necessarily precede the face-to-face of Adam and Eve, but because Adam\u2019s MAN is the reason for the elicitation of Mochin \u200eof face-to-face of ZON, they are regarded as preceding because first and next in spirituality, where there is no time, mean cause and consequence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
423) \u201cAnd a mist went up from the earth.\u201d This is the correction of below, of the man, which precedes the face-to-face of ZON. Afterwards, \u201cAnd watered the whole of the face of the ground,\u201d when face-to-face of ZON came out. ZA watered Malchut, the ground, since \u201cAnd a mist went up from the earth\u201d means that the craving of Nukva will rise to the male, for the raising of MAN of the lower one to the upper one is considered the female\u2019s craving for the male.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each upper and lower are male and female, and the lower one is considered Nukva compared to its upper one. Also, raising MAN is considered her craving because it rises only by the force of the craving. \u201cAnd a mist went up from the earth\u201d means that MAN rises from the Nukva, from the lower man, considered Nukva in relation to ZON, his upper one, and then the face-to-face of ZON come out \u201cAnd watered the whole of the face of the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is the reason that he did not shower rain? It is because ZON were not face-to-face because there still wasn\u2019t the correction of which it is written, \u201cAnd a mist went up from the earth,\u201d meaning that Adam had not raised MAN to ZON, and without Adam\u2019s MAN, the Mochin \u200eof face-to-face of ZON do not come out. For this reason, the work of face-to-face awakened in ZON from the lower earth, from Adam and Eve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
424) Smoke rises from the earth first, and the cloud awakens. Afterwards, everything connects to one another. It is similar to the rising of MAN from what is customary in this world in pouring down of rains. First, mist and smoke rise up from the earth, from below upward. From them, clouds awaken above, which bring down the rains from above downward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Similarly, the smoke of the offering that is burned on the altar awakens and ascends in the raising of MAN from below upward in ZON, and makes wholeness above. The Mochin face-to-face come in them, which are the wholeness of the ZON, and everything connects to one another\u2014the Mochin \u200eof face-to-face emerge and make a coupling face-to-face, both above and below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Similarly, above\u2014in the upper ones themselves\u2014the awakening always begins from the lower to the upper, and then everything is completed. Above, too, each lower degree raises MAN to its adjacent upper one, and the upper one to the one above it. Everyone raises MAN, first up to the highest one, then the abundance is poured from Ein\u200e Sof \u200efrom above downward and descends from degree to degree, from each upper one to its lower one until they come down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thus, in relation to MAN, each lower one precedes its upper one. In relation to MAD, the Mochin \u200eimparted from above, each upper one precedes its lower one. If the Assembly of Israel, the Nukva, was not initially in awakening, ZA would not awaken opposite her above. By the craving below, it was completed above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This gives the reason for the necessity to raise MAN for Mochin. We should understand it from the Nukva with ZA, where ZA is covered Hassadim and never awakens for Hochma \u200elike the Bina, but the Nukva needs illumination of Hochma. It follows that as long as the Nukva does not raise MAN to ZA, ZA has no need to extend Mochin \u200efrom AA. But following the Nukva\u2019s raising of MAN, he extends the Mochin \u200eof illumination of Hochma \u200efrom AA for her, and they obtain the Mochin \u200eof face-to-face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This reason is sufficient for all the degrees of Atzilut \u200ebecause they are all in Hassadim, and only the Nukva needs illumination of Hochma. Afterwards, for the birth of ZON, ZON rise to the degree of AVI and the Nukva becomes like Ima, in covered Hassadim. Now it follows that only the lower Eve needs illumination of Hochma \u200einstead of the Nukva of ZA needing illumination of Hochma. For this reason, the Mochin of Adam are now dependent on Eve, who awakens her upper one, Adam, to raise MAN to ZON for extending illumination of Hochma. Likewise are ZON toward their upper ones, etc., until the extension of abundance from Ein\u200e \u200eSof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
425) Why is it written, \u201cAnd the tree of life inside the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil,\u201d if the tree of knowledge is not in the middle of the garden? Rather, the tree of life is five hundred years away, and all the waters of Beresheet \u200edivide under it. It is five hundred years away because the tree of life is right in the middle of the garden, regarded as the middle line, hence it includes and imparts of the five Sefirot \u200ein Bina\u2014each of which is a hundred\u2014to the garden, Malchut, called \u201cyear.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the meaning of the tree of life being five hundred years away, that it walks and gives the five Sefirot \u200eKHB TM in Bina to the year, the Malchut \u200eand the garden. Also, it takes all the waters of Beresheet, all the Mochin \u200ein Bina that returned to Hochma, who is called Resheet, and they divide below it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
426) Why are all the waters of Beresheet divided under the tree of life? After all, that river that stretches out of Eden, Bina, is on the garden and enters it. That is, the Mochin \u200ethat the tree of life illuminates in the garden are from the river, from Bina, and from Bina the waters divide into several sides because the Mochin \u200edo not illuminate in Bina but in the three dots Holam, Shuruk, Hirik, which are the division of the Mochin \u200einto three sides: right, left, and middle. The garden takes all three sides in the Mochin, then they come out and are imparted from her to the lower ones and divide into several streams below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the garden received the Mochin \u200ein the division into three sides\u2014right, left, and middle\u2014when it imparts to the lower ones, they receive by the division into three sides, as well, as it is written, \u201cWill satiate all the beasts of the field,\u201d where each of the lower ones receives from its corresponding phase in the Mochin \u200eof the Nukva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Mochin \u200ecome out from the upper world, Bina, where they come out in three sides and Bina waters the Mochin \u200eto those upper mountains of the pure persimmon, which are HGT of Bina. Afterwards, when they reach there from HGT of Bina to the tree of life, ZA, the Mochin, too, divide into every side according to its way\u2014right, left, and middle. Therefore, they also divide so in the garden, which receives from the tree of life, and also in BYA, who receive from the garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
427) The tree of knowledge of good and evil is in the middle, between the good, right, and the evil, left. Why is it called so if that tree is not in the middle but leans to the left more than to the right? It is so because it sucks from both sides, right and left. It knows those to whom it clings, like one who sucks from the sweet and from the bitter. And because it sucks from both sides and knows them, as it clings to them and is in them, it is called \u201cgood and evil.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is why the Nukva is called \u201cthe tree of knowledge of good and evil,\u201d since there are two dots in the Nukva: one is sweetened by Bina, who is good, and one is not sweetened in and of herself, and she is bad. She suckles from both of them together, which is why she is called \u201cthe tree of knowledge of good and evil.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
428) All the plantings, the Sefirot \u200eof Malchut, are on the two dots good and evil because those dots are the Yesod of Nukva, who is below all the Sefirot. Also, other plantings, upper ones\u2014HGT NHY of ZA\u2014grip to it, from whom the Nukva is built during her Gadlut. They are called \u201cThe cedars of Lebanon.\u201d The cedars of Lebanon are those six upper days, the six days of Beresheet, as it is written, \u201cThe cedars of Lebanon that he had planted,\u201d for they are certainly plantations, as they existed after they were uprooted from their places and were planted elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
429 Henceforth, Samech is written in the portion, the Samech in the words \u201cAnd closed flesh in her stead.\u201d That is, since then Eve was discerned as support. First Eve was attached to his side, and they were attached side by side. Certainly, the Creator uprooted them, as it is written, \u201cAnd He took one of his ribs\u201d and planted them elsewhere, in AVI, as it is written, \u201cAnd the Lord God built the rib.\u201d \u201cThe Lord God\u201d is AVI, meaning ZON who clothed them, AVI, and became like them. They raised Eve to them and built her as a special Partzuf \u200e face-to-face, and Adam and Eve returned to being two Partzufim face-to-face. By that they existed in wholeness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prior to the Samech in the verse \u201cAnd closed flesh in her stead,\u201d Eve was not considered support to Adam, meaning two Partzufim face-to-face, but two Partzufim side by side. But once the Creator uprooted Eve, as it is written, \u201cAnd He took one of his ribs,\u201d henceforth, Eve became support because they returned to face-to-face. This is why the Samech was written promptly after the uprooting, as it is written, \u201cAnd closed [Yisgor] flesh in her stead.\u201d Likewise, the upper worlds, ZON, were also supported. First they were two Partzufim, and then the Creator, who are upper AVI, uprooted them and raised the Nukva to them, and built it, keeping ZON in a complete existence, meaning in face-to-face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
430) Adam and Eve are called \u201cplantings,\u201d as it is written, \u201cThe offshoot of My plantations, the work of My hands with which to boast.\u201d \u201cThe work of My hands\u201d means Adam and Eve, with whom no other creation dealt but the Creator alone. It is them that the text calls \u201cThe offshoot of My plantations.\u201d Thus, Adam and Eve are called \u201cplantings,\u201d as it is written, \u201cOn the day of your planting you will flourish … a heap of boughs in the day of grief and desperate pain.\u201d On the day when they were planted in the world, they sinned. He speaks of Adam \u200eHaRishon \u200eand calls them \u201cplanting,\u201d as it is written, \u201cOn the day of your planting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
431) The plantations, ZON, were as small as the antenna of grasshoppers, their light was frail, and they did not illuminate. Once they were planted elsewhere, meaning that they rose to AVI and were corrected, their lights grew and they were called \u201cthe cedars of Lebanon.\u201d Similarly, before Adam and Eve were planted elsewhere, in ZON, they did not grow in the light and did not emit good fragrance. Of course, they were uprooted from their place and were planted above in ZON and were corrected properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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