335) It is written, \u201cAnd the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.\u201d All the doubled organs, such as eyes, ears, and lips, come from the incorporation of the two points\u2014Bina and Malchut\u2014in one another, one from Bina and one from Malchut. There was no disclosure to the point of the quality of judgment, iron tools. Rather, everything was done only at the point of the quality of mercy. It follows that a coupling by striking that is done in the lips, speech, was not done in both lips, but only in the upper lip, the one from the quality of mercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd the whole earth was of one language\u201d means that the coupling by striking, speech, still did not include both lips [Safa means both \u201clip\u201d and \u201clanguage\u201d], both points. Rather, the coupling by striking was only in one lip. This is why \u201cof one speech\u201d means that there was still no separation in the worlds, and everything was unified and united.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is written, \u201cAnd it came to pass that when they journeyed from the east.\u201d They journeyed from the ancient one of the world, meaning extended illumination of the left line from above downward, which the ancient one of the world forbade them. Hence, \u201cAnd they found a valley in the land of Shinar,\u201d from which the judgments spread to all sides. This is the beginning, the start of Malchut\u2019s separation from the Kedusha, as it is written, \u201cAnd God has made one opposite the other.\u201d There are four phases HB TM in the shells, as well. The shell of Babylon is Hochma of the shell, the head of all the shells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
336) But it is written, \u201cAnd a river came out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted.\u201d How was it said that the valley in the land of Shinar is the beginning of the separation? The separation begins after Malchut of Atzilut, the garden. Because they went from there, from the garden, they found a valley in the land of Shinar and separation occurred. But when they are gathered there in the garden to suckle, and do not draw illumination of the left from there downward, then there is no separation there. This is why it is written about the garden, \u201cAnd from there it parted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But separation occurs specifically upon journeying from the garden, as it is written, \u201cAnd it came to pass when they journeyed from the east,\u201d from the garden, \u201cAnd they found a valley.\u201d Had they not journeyed from there, they would not find a valley in the land of Shinar, and they would not be parted from the Kedusha. This is why the valley in the land of Shinar is regarded as the beginning of the separation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
337) \u201cAnd the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.\u201d At that time, the world was in Yesod, in the essence, and in one root, in the quality of mercy, and they were of one faith, in the Creator, to not sin before Him. \u201cAnd it came to pass when they journeyed from the east\u201d means that they journeyed from the east and the essence of the world, the faith of all. \u201cThey found a valley\u201d means that they found such a find that caused them to exit the upper faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
338) \u201cAnd the beginning of his (Nimrod\u2019s) kingdom was Babel,\u201d since from there he took strength to cling to the domain of the Sitra Achra. \u201cAnd they found a valley in the land of Shinar\u201d means that from there they took the desire in their hearts to exit the domain of the upper one into the domain of the other. Thus, the land of Shinar is Babylon, the beginning and the root of separation from the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is so because the building of the shells began with the sin of the tree of knowledge. And although they exited prior to the sin of the tree of knowledge, too, since the shells are only measures of disclosure of deficiencies in Kedusha, hence, since the first restriction, when the deficiency of reception appeared in Malchut and she avoided receiving direct light into her, Malchut of the shells emerged opposite her. And to the extent that that Malchut of Kedusha was included in ZA, ZA of the shell emerged, as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But ZON of the shells have no actual power to separate; they are only presence without any power, since that diminution in Malchut of Kedusha, from which they emerged, was not a diminution whatsoever. On the contrary, through that diminution, Malchut was established in coupling by striking and emanated all the worlds; it is all splendor and glory. Therefore, although ZON of the shells were made due to the first restriction, it was without any force of harm or separation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The beginning of the force of separation appeared in them in the sin of the tree of knowledge. Once Malchut was built with the vessels of Bina and received direct light in them, and through the sin of the tree of knowledge the quality of judgment in her reappeared\u2014that she is unfit to receive and all the lights fled from her\u2014an actual flaw appeared in Malchut. And since Bina was included with her, that flaw reached Bina, too. And to the extent that that Bina returned to Hochma in order to bestow Hochma upon ZON, some of the flaw reached Hochma, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The essence of the sin of the tree of knowledge was extension of illumination of Hochma from above downward. For this reason, four deficiencies in Kedusha appear here, corresponding to HB and ZON, and four phases HB TM of the shells were built out of these flaws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, along with the punishment of the flood and the emergence of Noah and his sons from the ark, and the sacrificing of the sacrifice, much of the sin of the tree of knowledge was corrected, and the filth of the serpent was all but annulled, as in the giving of the Torah. For this reason, the shells were temporarily canceled and were left without a root or existence in HB, but only in ZON, as prior to the sin of the tree of knowledge, as it is written, \u201cAnd the whole earth was of one language and of one speech,\u201d when there was no force of separation in the worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd it came to pass that when they journeyed from the east,\u201d from the east and the essence of the world. That is, they agreed in their minds to sin by drawing Hochma from above downward following the counsel of the serpent. \u201cAnd they found a valley,\u201d they found Bina of the shell, who had already been canceled and gone from the worlds. Now she has reappeared and they found it because they traveled from the ancient one of the world, and the filth of the serpent appeared in them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For this reason, Bina of the shell promptly appeared in them, but only with regard to the Katnut in her, called \u201cvalley,\u201d a name that indicates the time of the fissuring of the degree, which was made in Bina by the incorporation of Malchut within her. The flaw of Malchut is mixed with Bina. Bina of the shell was built out of that flaw, and in her they sinned and came out from under the upper faith, Bina, since Malchut is called \u201cfaith,\u201d and Bina is called \u201cthe upper faith,\u201d as it is written, \u201cAnd they found a valley,\u201d which is Katnut and a flaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn the land of Shinar\u201d is Bina of the shell. \u201cAnd dwelt there\u201d means that they corrected her into a settlement, that they extended the completeness of the vessels back to her in a way that she becomes worthy of Mochin of Hochma. The Katnut is regarded as a desert, uninhabitable for people. Gadlut is regarded as settling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They promptly said, \u201cLet us build us a city and a tower with its head in heaven,\u201d meaning draw the GAR of HB to that Bina of the shell, called \u201ccity\u201d and \u201ctower,\u201d in a manner that they will illuminate from above downward through this world. By that, they built the Hochma of the shell. It now follows that the land of Shinar was built by their power to be Hochma of the shell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
339) It is written, \u201cAnd the wicked are like the troubled sea, for it cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.\u201d When the sea exits its place of correction and goes without limits, wishing to go past the sand, which is its limit, and pour into the land, its waters cast up and it exits its place like one who is drunken by wine. It does not sit in its place but rises and falls, \u201cfor it cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.\u201d Its water emits all the dirt of the world and all the filth from the bottom of the sea to its shore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
340) It is similar with the wicked of the generation of Babylon, who departed from the corrected path, from the ancient one of the world, and went without correction, as though drunken by wine who have clung to Bina of the shell. They departed from the straight path and onto a twisted path, to the valley in the land of Shinar, which is the flaw they had found there. \u201cIt cannot rest\u201d because the curviness in their way, which is the flaw they had found in it, caused them to go without correction and without rest until they said, \u201cLet us build us a city and a tower,\u201d meaning that they built the HB of the shells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
341) Moreover, they became filled with anger when they said \u201cLet us build us,\u201d since by that, they intended to satisfy their passion, and all who are greedy are angry. It is written, \u201cAnd its waters cast up mire and dirt.\u201d The shells are called \u201cmire\u201d and \u201cdirt.\u201d They all elicited grime and disgust from their mouths from the filth of the serpent that they extended by saying, \u201cLet us build us,\u201d until they were defiled with the filth of impurity of the serpent, and the serpent defiled them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
342) \u201cLet us build us.\u201d \u201cLet us\u201d is an invitation, speaking without acting. But the words they said caused the building of a city and a tower above, and they all came by the foul advice to rebel against the Creator, and came with nonsense and foolishness of the heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
343) Nonsense has taken their heart, but they came with Hochma of the shell in order to come out of the domain of the upper holy one into another domain, to the shells, and replace the glory of the Creator with the glory of a foreign God. There is sublime wisdom in this whole matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
344) When they came and sat in that valley, a foreign domain, in the flaw of Bina of the shell, it became revealed to them that that place is stuck among the fish of the sea, the degrees of Hochma. The wholeness of the vessels of that Bina was revealed to them, that she was worthy of being inhabited by people, to receive Hochma. They said, \u201cHere is the place,\u201d to sit and toughen the heart, that they\u2014the lower ones\u2014would enjoy in, meaning to draw from above downward, which is the place of the shells. They promptly said, \u201cLet us build us a city,\u201d meaning establish in that place a city and a tower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
345) \u201cAnd let us make us a name.\u201d That place\u2014the place of the shells\u2014will be to us as God, and not another place. \u201cTo that place, we will build a city and a tower,\u201d to draw HB of the shells. \u201cWhy do we need to go up,\u201d meaning draw from below upward, \u201cwhen we cannot enjoy from there? Here is a place established to draw from above downward.\u201d \u201cAnd let us make us a name\u201d means God, to work there, \u201clest we be scattered,\u201d to other degrees and disperse to the four directions of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
346) The builders of the city and the tower were speaking the holy language, which the ministering angels knew. They did not speak a different language. This is why it is written, \u201cAnd now nothing which they decide to do will be impossible for them.\u201d Had they been speaking a different language, which the high angels did not know, their thought which they contemplated to do would have been thwarted because an act of demons is only for a moment, only for people to see and not more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is written, \u201cAnd the whole earth was one language.\u201d \u201cOne language\u201d means \u201cthe holy language.\u201d Because they spoke the holy language, they swore the high angels to assist them in their building. Therefore, \u201cNothing which they decide to do will be impossible for them.\u201d Had they not been speaking the holy language, they would not have had the assistance of the angels, and their actions would have been as the actions of demons, which exist for only a moment and promptly fade by themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
347) They knew the upper degrees, each on its place. Also, their degree did not change, which is why it is written, \u201cAnd of one speech.\u201d That is, the degrees were as clear to them as one speech, in which there is no toil to know them. This is why they devised an ill counsel, the counsel of Hochma, as it is written, \u201cLet us build us a city and a tower,\u201d regarded as Hochma of the shells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
348) Everything is in Hochma. They wanted to enhance the Sitra Achra in the land and worship the Sitra Achra because they knew that all the evil judgments descend from there to the worlds. By that they wanted to repel the degree of Kedusha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
349) \u201cA city and a tower\u201d is the upper Hochma. They knew that the holy name Malchut is not strengthened in the earth, but in a city and a tower. A city is as it is written, \u201cFrom the city of David is Zion.\u201d A tower is as it is written, \u201cAs the Tower of David is your neck.\u201d Thus, the holy name, the kingdom of David, is also called by these names \u201ccity\u201d and \u201ctower\u201d when Malchut draws Hochma. They, too, worked in Hochma of the Sitra Achra to maintain the governance of the Sitra Achra in the land, being the opposite of Malchut, and to repel the Malchut called \u201cMaster of the whole earth\u201d from its place, and to make it a habitat and an abode for the Sitra Achra in the land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
350) \u201cAnd let us make us a name\u201d like the Kedusha there above. We will strengthen it among us, so it becomes a name in the land. As the Kedusha shines from below upward, so we will draw from above downward to the earth. \u201cLest we be scattered.\u201d They knew that they would be scattered on the face of the earth, hence they wisely united to do the work of a city and a tower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
351) The Sitra Achra is male and female. They are the force of the filth of the harsh judgment. As Adam sinned in the tree of knowledge, and by him the male and female of the Sitra Achra strengthened in the world, so they caused the Sitra Achra to grow stronger, as it is written, \u201cWhich the sons of men built,\u201d the sons of Adam HaRishon, who brought and vested the Sitra Achra over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He is the evil side. As the side of Kedusha has no governance in this world, but in a city and a tower, they also contemplated building a city and a tower to vest that evil side in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
352) \u201cAnd the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.\u201d That holy name came down to look at the works, at the building they had built. And they were speaking in the holy language to all the holy degrees. They were making oaths and were successful. Once the Kedusha descended, all those degrees were confused, the upper ones descended, the lower ones ascended, and they did not stand in the straight path as before. Hence, they could no longer make oaths because the names had changed for them. Subsequently, He scrambled their language in seventy languages and they scattered to every direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
353) There is an appointee in the firmament with whom there are all the keys to the deeds in the world. He stands ready for those who want him only at certain hours and moments of the day. They knew the wisdom and the secrets of that appointee, and with the words of their mouths, they would open and close all the gates of all that is concealed. Through the oaths that they made with their mouths with the words of their mouths to that appointee, they succeeded in building the city and the tower, as he was the minister of the world and its leader. Once the words in their mouths became confused, everything was prevented from them, since they no longer knew how to make oaths to that appointee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
354) They found a ready and fit place in that valley. It is the most concealed. \u201cAnd they found a valley,\u201d a suitable place for that evil side, which they wanted to enhance, and which was prevented from them. The power of that side remained hanging in that valley, to be avenged, until they journeyed and came there with hosts and camps, such as those that built the city and the tower, the sons of Ephraim. Then they were all given to that side and were killed there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
355) Those who did not want to go out at the end of days, meaning the sons of Ephraim, who departed from Egypt prematurely, were startled and fell to the end of days, to that place whose force had already been weakened in that valley at the time of the generation of Babylon. Now, for their iniquity, it intensified once more and killed them. It is written about that, \u201cAnd [He] set me down in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
356) The Sitra Achra strengthened in that image that Nebuchadnezzar established, then her power broke by those bones of the sons of Ephraim that Ezekiel revived. In that image, of the first ones, who were revived and rose to their feet, that image that Nebuchadnezzar made was broken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
357) Then all the people of the world knew that there is no God but the Creator. Also, the name was sanctified through Hanania, Mishael, and Azaria. That, too, caused the breaking of the power of the Sitra Achra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All those were on the same day. This is why it is written, \u201cThey shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and admire the God of Israel.\u201d These three\u2014Ezekiel\u2019s revival of the dead, the sanctification of the name by Hanania, Mishael, and Azaria, and Nebuchadnezzar\u2019s breaking of the image were all on the same day. Six miracles took place on that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
358) \u201cAnd the Lord came down to see the city and the tower.\u201d This is one of those ten times when the Shechina came down to the earth. What did He need to see that He did not know before? Seeing means overseeing with the quality of judgment, as it is written, \u201cHe who fears the Lord will rule over you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
359) It is not written, \u201cTo see the people,\u201d but \u201cTo see the city and the tower.\u201d When the Creator oversees to act in judgment, He first oversees in the upper degree, the root, and then in the lower degree, the branch, first in the upper ones, then in the lower ones. Because the city and the tower reach all the way up to the upper worlds, the providence of above was in them first, meaning the city and tower in the upper worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
360) \u201cWhich the sons of men built.\u201d \u201cThe sons of men\u201d implies that they were the sons of Adam HaRishon, who rebelled against his Master and inflicted death in the world. That is, they were taken after his actions. \u201cWhich the sons of men built.\u201d Of course, they built a building\u2014although they said, \u201cLet us build us,\u201d which is only an invitation\u2014because they said and caused it to be built above. That is, they said oaths in their mouths by which the city and the tower were built.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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