94) As they were walking, they saw a Jew approaching them. Rabbi Yosi said, \u201cThat man is Jewish, for he looks like a Jew.\u201d When he reached them, they asked him who he was. He told them, \u201cI am a messenger of good deeds. We dwell in the village Dramin. It is time for the festival and we need the Lulav [palm branch] and the species that go with it, so I am going to cut them for the purpose of the commandment.\u201d They went together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
95) That Jew told them, \u201cThere are four species in the Lulav, all of which come to appease the world. Why are they needed during the festival and not at other times?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
96) The place where we are sitting is small, but everyone engages in Torah. We have a teacher, the best of teachers. Each day, he tells us new things in the Torah. He said that the festival is a time for governance\u2014for Israel to govern over the ministers of the seventy nations. It is written, \u201cThen the malicious water swept over our soul. Blessed be the Lord for not giving us as prey to their teeth.\u201d Does water have teeth? However, malicious water is the rest of the nations, and the teeth are the ministers appointed over the rest of the idol-worshiping nations, which are blessed by Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
97) To rule over the rest of the nations, we come with the holy name implied in those four species in the Lulav. Myrtle is HGT, from the letter Yod of the name HaVaYaH. Willows of the brook are NH, which are extended from the letter Hey of HaVaYaH. Palm branches are Yesod, from the letter Vav of HaVaYaH. The citron is Malchut, the bottom Hey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is to appease the Creator and to govern them with the holy name, and to invoke on us holy water, abundance of upper water that subdues the malicious water, to pour it on the altar, Malchut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
98) On Rosh Hashanah [Hebrew New Year\u2019s Eve], the first awakening returns and comes to the world, the Nukva. That is, the Nukva becomes as before, as she was on the fourth day of the work of creation. The first awakening is the courthouse of below, which awakens to sentence the world, and the Creator sits on the throne of judgment and sentences the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Nukva is called \u201chouse,\u201d and on the fourth day of the work of creation, before she was built, she was from Chazeh of ZA and below, in his posterior. At that time, she was full of judgments, and she was called the \u201ccourthouse of below,\u201d below the Chazeh. For this reason, she sentences the world in judgment, and ZA also sits on the throne of judgment and judges the world. That state is called \u201cthe first awakening.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
99) That courthouse governs to judge the world until Yom Kippur [Day of Atonement]. At that time, her face illuminates, meaning she obtains GAR, called anterior. And the slandering serpent is absent in the world; he is busy with that he-goat to Azazel that he is given, which is from the side of the spirit of impurity, as befits the slanderer. And because he is busy with that he-goat, he does not approach the Temple, the Nukva, meaning he does not approach in order to slander Israel and separate the coupling of ZON.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
100) That goat is like the sin-offering of the beginning of the month, for he is busied with it. For this reason, the anterior of the Temple shines, meaning the Nukva. By that, all of Israel find mercy before the Creator and He revokes their iniquity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
101) When the moon, Nukva, approaches the sun, ZA, the Creator awakens the north side, left line, which is extended from the point of Shuruk, and grips her with love, pulling her to him. This is the reconciliation and reception of permission. The south, right line, awakens from another side, from the side of the point of Hirik, and the moon, Nukva, rises and connects in the east, ZA. At that time, she sucks from both sides\u2014from the south and from the north, taking the blessings, abundance of the coupling, in a whisper, which is VAK, through the point of Hirik, as it is written, \u201cAnd her voice could not be heard,\u201d since voice and speech mean GAR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At that time, the moon is blessed and filled with abundance. Here the woman approaches her husband, meaning it is a complete coupling, which imparts complete Mochin to the world. By that, it tells us that the order of that coupling is that first ZA extends to the Nukva illumination of the left line, as it is written, \u201cHis left is under my head,\u201d then the right line, as it is written, \u201cAnd his right shall embrace me.\u201d Illumination of Hochma is extended from the left, and Hassadim from the right. Then The Zohar<\/em> explains how the serpent grips at the time of illumination of the left line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 102) As there are forms of organs of people, ZA and his corrections, there are forms of organs of the Nukva of ZA and her corrections. The only difference is in the color: the color of ZA is green, and the color of the Nukva is red. However, in the form of the organs, they are the same. Also, below Atzilut is the correction of another, lower Adam, from the Sitra Achra, below the moon. In him there are the same forms of organs\u2014right and left, and so forth. By that, it tells us that the degrees are imprinted from one another, and the shapes in the upper one are passed on to the lower one, and the awakening of any phase in any of them evokes the corresponding phase in the others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 103) As the left arm is up in ZA, who is gripping the Nukva and awakens toward her with love, it is likewise below, from the Nukva, the serpent\u2014the left arm of the spirit of impurity, which is the Nukva of impurity. The one who grips him is the one who rides him, meaning the male of impurity who makes a coupling with the serpent. At that time, he approaches the moon, Nukva, and draws her, sucks from her, from among the attached, the place of the coupling, and she becomes defiled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are two points in Nukva: 1) the quality of judgment, where she is unfit to receive Mochin due to the first restriction, and she is concealed in it. 2) the quality of mercy, from Bina, in which she receives all the Mochin and illuminates to the world. This is revealed in the Nukva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is why she is called \u201cthe tree of knowledge of good and evil,\u201d for if a person is rewarded, it is good; if he is not rewarded, it is bad: 1) If one receives the illumination of the left in the corrections of the Kedusha, from below upward, it is good, for he receives from her the entire Mochin in wholeness. 2) If he is not rewarded, meaning draws the Mochin from above downward, the serpent approaches the Nukva and discloses the point of the quality of judgment in her, that she is unfit to receive Mochin and abundance from ZA because of the first restriction, for which the second point, of the quality of mercy, becomes corrupt, as well. For this reason, the coupling stops. It is regarded as though she became defiled and is no longer worthy of mating and receiving abundance from ZA. This is why it was said, \u201cAnd then he approaches the moon and draws her from among the attached ones, and she becomes defiled.\u201d He discloses the point of the quality of judgment that is hidden among the attached ones, and then she can no longer make a coupling and receive abundance for the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 104) At that time, Israel below offer a he-goat at the beginning of the month. Through it, they draw the sweetening of Malchut in Bina, and the illumination of the left from below upward. And that serpent follows that he-goat because its whole passion is the illumination of the left. Then the moon is purified because now she is worthy of receiving abundance from ZA, her husband. She rises up and connects above, in ZA, in order to be blessed, and now her face shines toward where she was previously darkened while she was below, before she came into a coupling with ZA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The he-goat of the beginning of the month comes to purify the Nukva, to draw to her the vessels of the quality of mercy from Bina with the illumination of the left, by which she resumes her purity. And although the serpent could still evoke the point of the quality of judgment after it has already appeared to him, he does not do it because he does not wish to spoil the illumination of the left, as he is so passionate over this illumination. It follows that now the accuser has become an advocate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 105) Even on Yom Kippur, because that evil serpent is busy with that he-goat to Azazel, which is also an extension of illumination of the left, like the he-goat of the beginning of the month, the moon parts from the serpent because it is busy with the he-goat and no longer wishes to slander her, so now the Nukva is busy advocating Israel and covering them like a mother over the children, and the Creator blesses them from above and pardons their iniquities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 106) Then, when Israel reach the festival of Sukkot, the right side of above awakens, as it is written, \u201cAnd his right shall embrace me,\u201d so the moon, Nukva, will connect to him in the right, and her face will shine as it should be. At that time, she dispenses some of her blessings to all those appointees of below, to seventy ministers, so they will be busy with their portions and will not come to nurse and approach the side of the portion of Israel, since when the serpent is busy with the he-goat, he does not slander the Nukva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 107) It is likewise below, in this world, when the nations are all blessed. They engage in the portion of their lot and do not come to mingle with Israel or covet the portion of their lot, like the serpent and the Nukva, and the seventy high appointees, and Israel. For this reason, on festivals, by offering seventy bulls, Israel draw blessings to all those appointees over seven nations so they engage in their portion and do not mingle with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 108) And when the moon is properly filled with blessings above, Israel come and nurse from her alone. This is why it is written, \u201cOn the eighth day you will have an assembly.\u201d An assembly is a gathering, since all that was gathered from the upper blessings, other nations do not nurse from her but Israel. This is why it is written, \u201cYou will have an assembly,\u201d you, and not the rest of the nations, you and not the rest of the appointees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 109) For this reason, Israel appease the Creator with water that they pour over the altar to give to the appointees of the nations some of the blessings, so they will engage in it and not interfere later with the joy of Israel when Israel suckle the upper blessings. It is written about that day, \u201cMy beloved is for me, and I am for him,\u201d for none other interferes with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 110) There is an allegory about a king who invited his loved one for a meal that he was having on a certain day, so the one who loves the king would know that the king favors him. The king said, \u201cNow I want to rejoice alone with the one who loves me, yet I fear that when I am at the meal with the one who loves me, all those appointed officers will come and sit with us at the table to join the meal of joy together with the one who loves me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n What did the lover do? First, he made stews of vegetables and ox meat and gave it to those appointed officers to eat, and then the king sat alone with the one who loves him for that sublime meal with all the delicacies in the world. And while he was alone with the king, he asks him for all his needs, and he gives him. And the king rejoices alone with the one who loves him, and no foreigners will interfere between them. Such are Israel with the Creator. This is why it is written, \u201cOn the eighth day you will have an assembly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 111) What has changed, that it is written, \u201cAnd the Lord showered Sodom and Gomorrah,\u201d and it is not written, \u201cAnd God showered\u201d? And what has changed in the flood in which it is written God everywhere, and it is not written in it, \u201cAnd the Lord,\u201d as in the upheaval of Sodom and Gomorrah?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 112) Wherever it is written, \u201cAnd the Lord,\u201d it is referring to Him and His courthouse, which is ZA, mercy, together with the Nukva, judgment. If it is written only Elokim [God], it implies only the courthouse, only to the Nukva, without ZA. It is so because in Sodom, the judgment was done so as to not destroy the world. This is why ZA was mixed with the judgment, and this is why it is written there, \u201cAnd the Lord,\u201d indicating the quality of mercy, ZA, called HaVaYaH [the Lord], together with His courthouse, Nukva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is so because the letter Vav, which is attached to HaVaYaH, multiplies the Nukva. But in the flood, He destroyed the whole world and all who are in the world. This is why the name Elokim is written in it, implying only the quality of judgment, without association with the quality of mercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 113) Why were Noah and all who were with him saved and not destroyed? It is because he was hidden from the eye of the saboteur; he was invisible to him. This is why it is considered that everything that was in the world was eradicated, everything that appeared to the eye of the saboteur. Hence, \u201cAnd the Lord\u201d indicates that he does not destroy everything that is revealed to the eye, as with the upheaval in Sodom. Elokim indicates that we must hide and watch out because he consumes everything that is open to the eye. Hence, Elokim points only to the Nukva, without ZA, who is mercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 114) It is written, \u201cThe Lord sat enthroned at the flood.\u201d He sat alone because He did not connect with the judgment that was made at the flood, as it is written, \u201cHe shall dwell alone, outside the camp of His dwelling.\u201d \u201cHe shall dwell\u201d means alone, by Himself. \u201cThe Lord sat enthroned at the flood\u201d means that during the judgment of the flood, He sat alone and did not connect to sentence that judgment. This is why He was all judgment without mercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 115) And because Noah was concealed from the eye, once the judgment was done and the world was consumed, and His anger subsided, it is written, \u201cAnd God remembered Noah,\u201d for until now, while the world was being consumed, Noah was not mentioned, since he was concealed from the eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 116) The Creator is concealed and revealed. The revealed is the courthouse of below, the Nukva, Rachel, standing from Chazeh of ZA and below. The concealed is the place from which all the blessings emerge, the coupling of ZA and Leah, who is standing from Chazeh of ZA and above. All the blessings come from that coupling; this is why there are blessings on everything that is concealed in man. And all that is revealed, the place of the courthouse is on it, the Nukva from Chazeh of ZA and below, since it is the place of disclosure, the revealed world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, the Hassadim appear in her in illumination of Hochma, and the one called \u201cevil eyed\u201d governs it. Thus, the place of disclosure of illumination of Hochma is where all the judgments and the shells grip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But no shell can grip to the Nukva from the Chazeh and above, where there are covered Hassadim. 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