46) \u201cThe Lord has done what He devised; He has performed His word that He commanded in the days of old.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
47) \u201cHe has performed His word\u201d means He tore His garment of glory, called a \u201cgarment of kingship.\u201d \u201cThat He commanded in the days of old.\u201d He commanded that garment of kingship from those upper days of old, the Sefirot of Partzuf Atik, called \u201cdays of old.\u201d He tore it on the day when the Temple was ruined, for that garment of kingship is his glory and his correction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Malchut is called the \u201cglory of the Creator.\u201d She is His correction because He is corrected by her with Mochin of illumination of Hochma. He tore it means that the upper nine have departed from her and a tenth of her remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
48) \u201cThe Lord has done what He devised.\u201d Is it the king\u2019s way to contemplate harming his sons even before they come to sin? It is like a king who had a precious vessel. Each day he feared that it would break, so he would look at it and it was straight in his eyes. In time, the son came and angered the king. The king took the precious vessel and broke it, as it is written, \u201cThe Lord has done what He devised.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
49) Since the day when the Temple was built, the Creator was looking in it, and He was very fond of it. He feared that Israel would sin and the Temple would be ruined. And so, each time He would come to the Temple, He would wear that garment of kingship, meaning He would make a coupling with Malchut. After they caused the sins and angered the king, the Temple was ruined and He tore that garment of kingship, as it is written, \u201cThe Lord has done what He devised; He has performed His word.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
50) \u201cHis word\u201d is Malchut. At first, she would sit at the topmost branch, and the king would be crowned with her as a crown on his head, with the tree of the souls in front of him before they come into the world. Now that the Temple has been ruined, He tore it, meaning that the upper nine have departed from her and she remained with only the light of Nefesh. And then, when the Temple was ruined, sadness had formed before Him, but only in the outer buildings, not in the inner ones, as it is written, \u201cBut their valiant ones cry without,\u201d meaning only on the outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
51) \u201cAnd on that day did the Lord, God of hosts, call to weeping and to lamentation.\u201d Only when the Temple was ruined did He call to weeping and to lamentation. But on other times, there is no joy before the Creator as when the wicked of the world and those who anger Him are lost from the world, as it is written, \u201cWhen the wicked perish, there is singing.\u201d It is likewise in each generation: When He executes judgment against the wicked of the world, there is joy and singing before the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
52) But there is no joy before the Creator when He executes judgment against the wicked. Rather, when the judgment is done against the wicked, there is joy and singing before Him for their perishing from the world. When it was time, He waited for them to repent, and they did not return to Him from their sin. But if the judgment is done with them before their time, and their iniquity has not been completed, as it is written, \u201cfor the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full,\u201d and it is still possible that they will repent, then there is no joy before Him, and it is bad in His eyes that they have been lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
53) If it is before their time, why does He execute judgment against them? Indeed, they inflicted the harm on themselves. The Creator would not execute judgment on them before their time, but because they connected to Israel in order to harm them, He executed the judgment on them and eradicated them from the world prematurely. This is why it is bad in His eyes to destroy them before their time, and this is why He drowned the Egyptians in the sea and destroyed Israel\u2019s enemies in the days of Jehoshaphat, and likewise all of them. Because they harmed Israel, they were lost prematurely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
54) But when the time was ripe and He waited for them but they did not return in repentance, then there is joy and singing before Him for their removal from the world. The exception is when the Temple was ruined, for although their time had already been completed and they angered Him, there was still no joy before Him. And since that time onward, there is no joy above or below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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