{"id":12050,"date":"2025-12-14T16:53:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=12050"},"modified":"2025-12-14T16:53:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:53:52","slug":"my-spirit-shall-not-abide","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/my-spirit-shall-not-abide\/","title":{"rendered":"My Spirit Shall Not Abide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>419) \u201cAnd the Lord said, \u2018My spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he, too, is flesh.\u2019\u201d When the Creator created the world, He made this world, Malchut, to use it like the upper world, Bina. That is, He made all the lights that illuminate in Bina also illuminate in Malchut, this world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the people of the world are righteous, going by the straight path, the Creator evokes the spirit of life, the Mochin of above that are in Bina until this life reaches the place where Jacob, ZA, is found, since they extend from Bina to ZA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>420) And life is extended from there until that spirit of life is drawn to this world, to Nukva, to the place where King David is found. From there, the blessings are drawn to all the lower ones in BYA. That upper spirit spreads and is extended downward, and the lower ones can exist in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>421) This is why it is written, \u201cHis mercy is forever,\u201d with a Vav. It is for the world of King David, this world, the Nukva. Vav is the spirit of life, which is drawn to the world. This is why it is written, \u201cMy spirit shall not abide in man forever,\u201d without a Vav, since when a spirit is drawn to that world, blessings and life emerge from there to all so they may exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, in the generation of the flood, when people sinned in extending from above downward and blemished the middle line, gripping to the left line, everything departed from the world so that that spirit of life would not come to this world to delight the lower ones in it, and they would exist in it. This is why it says here \u201cforever\u201d without a Vav, since they blemished the middle line, Vav, the spirit of life, and gripped to the left line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>422) \u201cFor he, too, is flesh.\u201d This is why the spirit of life will not be imparted to this world, to not enhance the serpent, the lower one of the degrees, called \u201cflesh,\u201d so the spirit of life will not be strengthened by it, and the holy spirit will not mingle with the serpent\u2019s spirit of impurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meaning of the words \u201cFor he, too, is flesh,\u201d is that the primordial serpent, too, who is called \u201cflesh,\u201d will be blessed by that spirit of life. This is why the serpent is called \u201cflesh,\u201d as it is written, \u201cThe end of all flesh has come before Me.\u201d This is the angel of death, which is the primordial serpent. Thus, the serpent is called \u201cflesh.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is also written, \u201cHis days were one hundred and twenty years,\u201d meaning waiting of the connected tower. The Nukva is called a \u201ctower\u201d only when she ascends to HGT and ties to them as a fourth to the fathers. This is why she is called the \u201cconnected tower.\u201d At that time, she has three connections, where HGT and Nukva connected to one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are four degrees, each with ten Sefirot, which is 40. There is a connection of 40 from the right line, 40 from the left line, and 40 from the middle line, and three times 40 is 120. A year means Sefirot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We learn, \u201cAll the years of Rabbi Yohanan Ben Zakai were one hundred and twenty years.\u201d Forty years he engaged in commerce, forty years he learned, and forty years he taught. It is so because he is the three connections in Malchut: forty in commerce from the right line, forty of learning from the left line, and forty of teaching from the middle line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is why it is written, \u201cMy spirit shall not abide in man forever,\u201d since the Vav is missing because they blemished the middle line and gripped to the left line, to draw from it from above downward. Hence, the spirit of life will not illuminate for them. \u201cFor he, too, is flesh,\u201d since the serpent, who is called \u201cflesh,\u201d will grow from him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather, \u201cAnd his days were one hundred and twenty years,\u201d that Malchut must be corrected into receiving from all three lines three times 40, which are 120 years. The number 120 years is waiting, and the time to correct the connected tower in all three connections, which are the number 120. 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