209) It is written, \u201cAnd the Lord God formed the man dust from the ground.\u201d \u201cThe man\u201d includes male and female together, two Partzufim that do not part from one another, being face-to-face. It is written about them, \u201cdust from the ground,\u201d since now he is about to be corrected, so they part from one another and become face-to-face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here the correction implied in the words \u201cdust from the ground\u201d is clarified. When a woman marries her husband, she is named after her husband, such as man-woman, Tzadik [righteous]-Tzedek [justice]. He is called Ofer [fawn]; she is called Afar [dust]. He is called gazelle; she is called deer, as it is written, \u201cShe is a deer to all the lands.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the Creator is called \u201cgazelle\u201d or \u201cfawn,\u201d for before ZA is sweetened in Bina, he is called a \u201cgazelle,\u201d after he is sweetened in Bina, he is called \u201cdeer,\u201d as it is written, \u201cMy beloved is like a deer or a gazelle.\u201d The Nukva, too, is called by these names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He brings evidence from the text \u201cShe is a deer to all the lands,\u201d where the earth, Nukva, is also called deer then, like her husband. And similarly, before the Nukva is sweetened in Bina, she is called \u201cdust,\u201d like her husband, who is then called \u201cfawn\u201d [\u201cdust\u201d and \u201cfawn\u201d are spelled the same in Hebrew]. By that, we explained the name \u201cfawn\u201d [dust] in the words \u201cdust from the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
210) \u201cYou shall not plant you an Asherah or any kind of tree beside the altar.\u201d It is written, \u201cbeside the altar,\u201d meaning that only by the altar it is forbidden to plant an Asherah. And above the altar, or elsewhere, who permitted planting an Asherah?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Asher is the name of her husband, after whom the woman is named Asherah. That is, Asher is ZA, since in the names \u201cI am that I am,\u201d the two \u201cI am\u201d are HB, and Asher [that] is ZA, Daat, sentencing between Hochma and Bina. Asherah is Nukva of ZA. This is why it is written, \u201cfor Baal and for Asherah,\u201d standing opposite ZON of Kedusha\u2014Baal opposite ZA, and Asherah opposite the Nukva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is why it is written, \u201cYou shall not plant you an Asherah of any kind of tree by the altar.\u201d \u201cBy\u201d is like \u201cat the place.\u201d \u201cYou will not plant you an Asherah of idol work instead of an altar of the Lord your God.\u201d The altar of the Creator insists on this, to cancel the shell of Asherah. Hence, corresponding to the altar, you will not plant another Asherah, of idol worship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
211) All those who worship the sun are called \u201cworshippers of the Baal.\u201d And all those who worship the moon are called \u201cworshippers of Asherah.\u201d This is why it is written, \u201cfor Baal, and for Asherah,\u201d where Baal is the sun, male, and Asherah is the moon, female. She is called Asherah after her husband, who is called \u201cAsher.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If she is named after her husband, Asher, why was that name taken away from the Nukva? After all, we did not find Nukva of Kedusha being called Asherah. However, she is called Asherah in the verse \u201cHappy am I, for the daughters will call me happy,\u201d meaning because others make her happy and praise her. It is written about her, \u201cBeautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth.\u201d But the rest of the nations did not make her happy; they placed another Asherah in her stead, one of idol worship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moreover, they despise her, as it is written, \u201cAll who honored her despise her.\u201d This is why that name was taken away from her, since they no longer make her happy. And in order to not strengthen the other, idol worshipping nations, she is called an \u201caltar,\u201d which is made of earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Altar was the name given to her instead of the name Asherah. It was made of earth, Bina, from the words Eretz Edom [land of Edom]. Through the sweetening of Bina, she receives Mochin of face-to-face that cancel the powers of idol worship, as it is written, \u201cAn altar of earth you shall make Me.\u201d This is why it is also written concerning Adam HaRishon, \u201cAnd the Lord God formed the man dust from the earth. Dust is Malchut; earth is Bina. Through the sweetening of dust with earth, he was rewarded with receiving the Mochin of the living soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
212) And once the dust has been sweetened in the ground, it is written, \u201cAnd He breathed into his nostrils the soul of life.\u201d The soul of life was included in this dust that was sweetened, which is the body of Adam HaRishon, like a female impregnated by the male. That is, once the body has been included in the ground, Bina, the body of Adam HaRishon rose to Nukva of Atzilut, who clothes Bina, and rose up there in Ibur. There he received the soul of life in the order of Ibur-Yenika-Mochin, and the soul and body connected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The light of Bina is called Neshama [soul]. And when the body is sweetened and becomes the vessel of Bina, it becomes fit to receive the light of Bina, and the light and vessel connect. The Guf is then filled with dust from all the lights, which are spirits and souls, and then it is written, \u201cand the man became a living soul,\u201d since now the man was established with body and soul, and he is poised to correct and nourish the living soul, his Nukva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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