432) \u201cAnd the Lord God commanded the man, saying, \u2018From any tree of the garden you may eat.\u2019\u201d A command is nothing but idol worship. \u201cThe Lord\u201d is the blessing of the Creator; \u201cGod\u201d is the judges. \u201cThe man\u201d is bloodshed; \u201cSaying\u201d is incest. A command is nothing but idol worship means that anywhere where it is written \u201cCommand,\u201d it implies prohibition of idol worship. Here, too, the word indicates \u201cCommanded\u201d means He forbade him to idol worship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here Adam \u200eHaRishon \u200ewas commanded seven Mitzvot [commandments]. \u201cCommanded\u201d is idol worship; \u201cThe Lord\u201d is the prohibition of the blessing of the Creator; \u201cGod\u201d is the judges, who sentence justly; \u201cThe man\u201d is the prohibition on bloodshed; \u201cSaying\u201d is the prohibition on incest. \u201cFrom any tree of the garden,\u201d and not what is stolen, \u201cYou may eat,\u201d and not an organ from an animal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFrom any tree of the garden you may eat\u201d indicates that He permitted him to eat everything, even the tree of knowledge, but he should eat them in a unification, and the tree of knowledge was not in unification with the rest of the trees of the garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
433) We see that Abraham ate from the tree of knowledge, and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets ate from the tree of knowledge, yet they lived. But the reason is that that tree, the tree of knowledge, is the tree of death. Anyone who takes it in itself alone dies because he has taken the potion of death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Interpretation: The tree of knowledge is the Nukva of ZA. We should always unify her with the rest of the trees of the garden, the Sefirot of ZA, and then we can eat and receive the abundance from her, who is the tree of knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the manner in which Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and all the prophets ate from her. But one who does not unify the Nukva with ZA her husband, but extends from her, herself alone, then she is the potion of death, as it is written, \u201cFor in the day that you eat from it you will surely die,\u201d meaning from her alone because he separates and cuts the plantations, separating the Creator from His Shechina. This is why his sentence is death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
434) Adam \u200eHaRishon \u200ewas pulling on his foreskin, separating the holy covenant, Yesod of ZA, from his place and portion, from the Shechina. Hence, he was certainly pulling on the foreskin, leaving the holy covenant, the unification of the Creator and His Shechina. He clung to the foreskin, the shell, which separates the Creator from His Shechina, and was tempted by the words of the serpent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
435) \u201cAnd from the fruit of the tree … \u2018You shall not eat from it\u2019 … lest you die.\u201d \u201cFrom the fruit of the tree\u201d is the woman, Nukva of ZA. \u201cYou shall not eat from it\u201d because it is written, \u201cAnd her legs go down to death,\u201d meaning that the legs of the Nukva descend to the shells, where there is death, meaning if he extends abundance only from her when she is not in coupling with her husband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It cannot be said that the tree of knowledge is the Sitra \u200eAchra \u200eand is not the Nukva of Kedusha \u200ebecause there are fruits in the Nukva of ZA, and it can be said about her, \u201cAnd from the fruit of the tree.\u201d But in the Sitra \u200eAchra, \u200ethere are no fruits because another god is sterile and does not bear fruit. So how does the text say about it, \u201cAnd from the tree of the garden\u201d? Indeed, it is written, \u201cOn the day when you eat from it you will surely die.\u201d This is why the tree is called \u201cthe tree of death,\u201d although it is the Nukva of Kedusha, as it is written, \u201cHer legs go down to death,\u201d even though she herself is life and Kedusha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
436) That tree, the tree of knowledge, was watered from above. It grew and was glad, as it is written, \u201cAnd a river comes out of Eden to water the garden.\u201d \u201cThe garden\u201d means Nukva of ZA. That river, Bina, enters the Nukva and waters her, giving her Mochin of Gadlut, and everything becomes one. Through these Mochin, \u200eZA and Nukva became one because from there down, below Nukva of ZA, there is already separation and they cannot receive those Mochin, as it is written, \u201cAnd from there it parted.\u201d It is so because below the garden it is already separated and is not entirely Godliness, since NR of BYA below the Nukva are not Godliness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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