437) \u201cAnd the serpent was cunning.\u201d The serpent is the evil inclination, who seduces to sin. The serpent was really a serpent, but indeed, it is all one because it was SAM and was seen riding a serpent. The shape of the serpent is Satan, the evil inclination, who seduces people to sin and then rises and slanders. Thus, it is all one. It can be said that the serpent is the evil inclination, and it can be said that it is a real serpent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
438) At that time, Angel SAM descended from the heaven and rode that serpent, and all the people saw his shape and fled from him. SAM and the serpent engaged in conversation with the woman and caused death to the world. Indeed, it is with wisdom that SAM brought curses upon the world, that he cunningly seduced them into sinning, and sabotaged the first tree that the Creator created in the world, Adam \u200eHaRishon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
439) That matter depended on SAM, meaning on him robbing the Mochin \u200eand the blessings from Adam \u200eHaRishon \u200ewith his cunningness, making him sin with the tree of knowledge. Finally, the other holy tree came, Jacob, and took the blessings back from SAM, so Angel SAM\u2014Esau\u2019s minister\u2014would not be blessed from above, and so that Esau would not be blessed below, since SAM and Esau were built by the ruin of Adam \u200eHaRishon. Through the ruin of SAM and Esau, the Kedusha \u200eis rebuilt, hence because SAM robbed the blessings from the Kedusha \u200ewith his cunningness, Jacob retook the blessings from SAM and from Esau with cunningness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the reason why it was specifically Jacob who grew strong in that, to return the theft that SAM stole from Adam \u200eHaRishon, is that Jacob was similar to Adam \u200eHaRishon. Jacob\u2019s beauty was as the beauty of Adam \u200eHaRishon, hence as SAM denied the blessings from the first tree, who is Adam \u200eHaRishon, Jacob, who is similar to Adam \u200eHaRishon, denied the blessings from SAM above, and from Esau below. Everything that Jacob took, he took from his own, which SAM stole from Adam \u200eHaRishon. This is why it is written, \u201cAnd a man struggled with him,\u201d being SAM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
440) \u201cAnd the serpent was cunning.\u201d The serpent is the evil inclination; it is the angel of death. And because the serpent is the angel of death, it caused death to the whole world, seducing Eve to sin with the tree of knowledge. It is written, \u201cThe end of every flesh has come before Me,\u201d meaning the angel of death, who puts an end to every flesh, taking the souls from every flesh and is called so, \u201cthe end of every flesh.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
441) The serpent started with Af [\u201calthough\u201d but also \u201cire\u201d], saying, \u201cAlthough God said.\u201d Thus, he brought with him ire and anger to the world. He said to the woman, \u201cWith this tree the Creator created the world,\u201d since the world was created by the Nukva. \u201cTherefore, indeed eat from it and you will be as God, knowing good and evil, and you, too, will be able to create worlds through the Nukva.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ZA is Elokim [God]. His name, the Nukva, is the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Therefore, if you eat from the tree of knowledge, which is his name, meaning they would adhere to the Nukva and to her abundance, then \u201cyou will be as God,\u201d like ZA, and you\u2019ll be able to create worlds like him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
442) However, the serpent did not say, \u201cWith this tree the Creator created the world.\u201d Had He said so, it would have been good because the tree is like an ax in the hand of the one who carves with it, since the tree of knowledge is the Nukva of ZA. That is, had he said that ZA created the world through the Nukva, he would have been telling the truth because he is operating in the Nukva like an ax in the hand of the one who carves with it, for the Nukva has nothing of her own except that which ZA gives her. It follows that the operator is ZA, and this is certainly true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, the serpent did not say so. Rather, he said, \u201cThe Creator ate from this tree,\u201d meaning that ZA received abundance from the Nukva, and then ZA created the world. Every craftsman hates his friend. Eat from the tree of knowledge and you, too, will be able to create worlds. But this is a complete lie because the Nukva receives everything from ZA, which is why he said, \u201cBecause God knows that on the day you eat from it, your eyes will open and you will be as God, knowing good and evil.\u201d Because He knows that you will be as God and will create worlds like Him, He commanded you not to eat from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
443) All his words were lies. He was lying even in the beginning of the words, as it is written, \u201cAlthough God said, \u2018You shall not eat from any tree of the garden,\u2019\u201d it is not so because it is written, \u201cFrom any tree of the garden you may eat,\u201d so He permitted him everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
444) Rabbi Yosi said, \u201cThe Creator commanded him on idol worship, on blessing the Creator, on the judgments, on bloodshed, and on incest.\u201d But how many people were in the world of whom the Creator had to warn him? All those seven Mitzvot \u200ewere only on that tree, the tree of knowledge, since all those Mitzvot \u200ecling to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
445) Anyone who takes the tree of knowledge\u2014the Nukva alone without her husband ZA\u2014separates between ZA and Nukva. It follows that he takes her imparting in the masses below in the separated BYA, where there are the shells, which cling to the tree of knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By that, he takes upon himself the prohibitions of idol worship, bloodshed, and incest: 1) He breaches with idol worship in those appointed ministers to whom he extends the abundance from the tree of knowledge. It follows that he is working for the appointed, which is idol worship. 2) He breaches with bloodshed because the power of bloodshed depends on that tree, for it is on the left side, Gevura. By that, SAM, Esau\u2019s minister was appointed. 3) He breaches with incest because the tree of knowledge is a woman. It is called \u201ca woman,\u201d Nukva of ZA, and it is forbidden to summon a woman alone, but together with her husband, so he will not be suspected of incest. The sin of the tree of knowledge is that he took the Nukva alone without her husband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For this reason, in all seven Mitzvot, he was commanded with the prohibition of that tree, the tree of knowledge. Once he ate from it, he breached in all of them because they are all gripped to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
446) Rabbi Yehuda said, \u201cOf course the prohibition of the tree of knowledge is so, since it is forbidden to be alone with a woman unless her husband is with her.\u201d What did that wicked one, SAM, do? He said, \u201cBut I have touched that tree and did not die. You too, come near and touch it with your hand and you will not die.\u201d He added that of his own, for touching was not forbidden, but eating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
447) Promptly after she touched the tree of knowledge, it is written, \u201cAnd the woman saw that the tree was good to eat.\u201d Rabbi Yehuda said, \u201cThat tree was emitting fragrances, as it is written, \u2018As the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed.\u2019 And because the scent was coming up from it, she coveted it, to eat from it.\u201d Rabbi Yosi says, \u201cHer seeing brought her the coveting to eat from the tree of knowledge, and not the smell, since it is written, \u2018And the woman saw.\u2019\u201d Rabbi Yehuda told him, \u201cBut after the sin it is written, \u2018And the eyes of both of them were opened.\u2019 Thus, she did not obtain seeing until after the eating. But prior to the eating, she obtained only smelling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rabbi Yosi told him, \u201cThat seeing prior to eating was in the measure of the tree, a female light, and that seeing brought her the coveting. But the seeing that she obtained after the eating was to a great extent in regard to the tree. This is why it is written, \u2018And the eyes of both of them were opened,\u2019 as it is written, \u2018And the woman saw.\u2019 The words \u2018The woman\u2019 are accurate, showing that the seeing was in the light of a female.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
448) \u201cAnd the woman saw that the tree was good.\u201d It is written, \u201c…and took of its fruit.\u201d She saw and she did not see that the tree was good. She saw that the tree was good but she could not decide, since it is written, \u201c…and took of its fruit,\u201d and it is not written \u201cAnd she took from it,\u201d from the tree, since she did not make up her mind that the tree was good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By taking from its fruit and not from the tree, she clung to the place of death and caused death to the entire world, separating life from death because the Yesod, attached to the Nukva, is called \u201cbearing fruit,\u201d and the Nukva is called \u201cfruit.\u201d When the Nukva is alone, without the Yesod, she is death. And when she took from the fruit and not from the tree, it is found that she clung to the place of death, and separated the Yesod, which is life, from the Nukva, which is death, when she is separated from the Yesod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That sin caused the separation of Nukva from her husband ZA, since the voice, ZA, and the speech, Nukva, never part, and one who parts the voice from the speech\u2014ZA from Nukva\u2014becomes mute and cannot speak. And when the speaking is denied of him, he is given to the dust. This is why he was told, \u201cAnd unto dust you shall return.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
449) \u201cI was mute silent; I held my peace from good,\u201d said the Assembly of Israel, Nukva of ZA, during the exile. It is so because the voice, ZA, leads the speech, the Nukva. And since she is in exile, the voice is separated from her, and the speech\u2014Nukva\u2014is not heard. This is why the Nukva said, \u201cI was mute silent\u201d since \u201cI held my peace from good,\u201d meaning ZA, who is called \u201cgood,\u201d and who is the voice. It turns out that the voice is not going with her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At that time, Israel say, \u201cUnto You are silence and praise.\u201d \u201cSilence\u201d is the praise for David, since Nukva is called \u201cpraise\u201d when she is in Gadlut. She becomes silence in the exile, she is muted, soundless. \u201cUnto You,\u201d Israel say to ZA, \u201cFor You is she silent and mute,\u201d since the voice, ZA, has moved away from her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
450) \u201cAnd she took of its fruit.\u201d Eve squeezed grapes and gave it to Adam. By eating them, they caused death to the entire world because death resides in the tree of knowledge. It is the tree that governs in the night, the Nukva, as it is written, \u201cThe small light for the governances of the night.\u201d It is written about her, \u201cShe rises while it is still night.\u201d And when she governs at night, all the people in the world taste the taste of death, since sleep is one part of 60 of death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, those faithful ones hurry and give her their Nefashot [souls] as deposits, saying before they go to sleep, \u201cIn Your hand I commit my spirit.\u201d And because the Nefashot are deposited in the Nukva during the governance of the taste of death, they are not harmed, and the Nefashot return to their places by morning, meaning to the bodies. It is written about it, \u201cAnd Your faith in the nights,\u201d for faith, the Nukva, rules at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
451) \u201cAnd the eyes of both of them were opened.\u201d They were opened to know the evils of the world, which they did not know thus far. Once they know and their eyes were opened to know evil, it is written, \u201cAnd they knew that they were naked,\u201d for they lost the upper brightness that was hovering over them. It departed from them and they were left naked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
452) \u201cAnd they sewed fig-leaves,\u201d meaning they clung to cover in the shades of the tree from which they had eaten because the leaves of the tree cast shade beneath them. There is a shade from the Kedusha, as it is written, \u201cIn its shade I delighted to sit,\u201d and there is a shade from the shell, as it is written, \u201cGod has made one opposite the other.\u201d Once they sinned in the tree of knowledge, it cast upon them the shade of the tree of death, which is the shadow of death. And where they initially had the upper brightness, which was a canopy over them, they were now in the shade of the shell, called fig-leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd made themselves girdles.\u201d Once they knew of this world and clung to it, they saw that this world was led by those leaves of the tree and made themselves strengthening by which to be strengthened in this world. It is so because prior to the sin, the world was led only by the Kedusha. By the sin of the tree of knowledge, they cast the Mochin \u200efrom the degrees of Kedusha, the shells \u200ewere filled by the ruin of the Kedusha, and the guidance was placed in the hands of the Sitra \u200eAchra, as it is written, \u201cThe earth was placed in the hand of the wicked.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It follows that along with the sin of the tree of knowledge, the fig-leaves, which are the shades of the Sitra \u200eAchra \u200ethat dominated this world, were given power and governance. Then they know every kind of charm in the world and wish to gird arms because of those leaves of the tree to protect themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
453) Three entered the judgment\u200e and were sentenced: the serpent, Adam, and Eve. The bottom world has been cursed and did not return to its state due to the filth of the serpent, until Israel stood by Mount Sinai. At that time, the filth stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
454) After the sin, the Creator clothed them in clothes that the skin enjoys and not the Nefesh, as it is written, \u201cGarments of skin.\u201d Initially, they had garments of light, which the upper ones would use on their way up, since high angels would come to Adam \u200eHaRishon \u200eto enjoy that light, as it is written, \u201cYou have made him a little lower than God, and You crown him with glory and majesty.\u201d But now that they sinned, they were given garments of leather, which the skin enjoys, the body and not the soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
455) Afterwards, they begot the first son, who was the son of the filth of the serpent. Two came over Eve, Adam and the serpent. She conceived from them and begot two, Cain and Abel. One came out to the side of its progenitor, and the other came out to the side of its progenitor. Their spirit was separated\u2014one to the side of Kedusha \u200eand one to the side of impurity. One resembles its phase, and the other resembles its phase, the side from which they emerged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By heeding the advice of the serpent, he cast his filth in her, and the filth of the serpent mixed in Eve\u2019s body. Later, Adam came up on her, and it is considered that she was impregnated from both, from the serpent\u2019s filth and from Adam \u200eHaRishon\u2019s Kedusha. First emerged Cain, who was mixed with the serpent\u2019s filth. Afterwards, once the filth had come out of Eve along with the birth of Cain, Abel came out in the Kedusha \u200eof Adam \u200eHaRishon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
456) All the sections of evil kinds, spirits, demons, and charmers come from Cain\u2019s side. From Abel\u2019s side more mercy is drawn out to the world, but not in completeness. It is like a good wine mixed with bad wine. The world was not corrected by him until Shet [Seth] was born and all the generations of the world\u2019s righteous were related after him, and the world was established with him, while from Cain came all the insolent, sinners, and wicked of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
457) When Cain sinned, he feared because he saw before him various armed camps that came to kill him. When he repented, he said, \u201cBehold, You have driven me this day from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden … and whoever finds me will kill me,\u201d for he feared the camps that came to kill him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFrom Your face I will be hidden\u201d because he said, \u201cI will be hidden and ruined from my structure,\u201d since Cain was a husbandman, and once He drove him out of the land, his whole structure came apart and nothing was left for him in the world. Moreover, \u201cFrom Your face I will be hidden,\u201d as it is written, \u201cAnd He did not hide His face from him.\u201d It is also written, \u201cAnd Moses hid his face.\u201d Cain said about that, \u201cFrom Your face I will be hidden,\u201d saying, \u201cI will be hidden from Your face so I am not noticed.\u201d Hence, \u201cWhoever finds me will kill me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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