41) There are seven blessings. \u201cAnd I will make you a great nation\u201d is one, \u201cAnd I will bless you\u201d is two, \u201cAnd [I will] make your name great\u201d is three. \u201cAnd you will be a blessing\u201d is four, \u201cAnd I will bless those who bless you\u201d is five, \u201cAnd I will curse those who curse you\u201d is six, \u201cAnd all the families of the earth will be blessed in you\u201d is seven. After he was blessed with those seven blessings, it is written, \u201cAnd Abram went forth as the Lord had spoken to him,\u201d meaning he went to come down to this world, as he was commanded. Abraham is the Neshama [soul], and after the Neshama is blessed in seven blessings, it comes down to this world to clothe in a Guf [body].<\/p>\n\n\n\n
42) Promptly, it is written, \u201cAnd Lot went with him.\u201d This is the serpent that was cursed and for which the world was cursed. This is why the text calls the serpent by the name \u201cLot.\u201d Lot means curse in Aramaic. He was cursed and brought curse to the world, and he accompanies the soul in this world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The serpent stands at the door, to incite the body, as it is written, \u201cSin crouches at the door.\u201d Hence, the soul will not do its assigned task before it spends thirteen years in this world, since the soul awakens to do the work it is told from twelve years on, as it is written, \u201cAbram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.\u201d Seventy, in units, is seven. Seventy-five are twelve years. And then the soul departs from Haran, the shells, and awakens to go with the work of the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
43) And after twelve years, the soul will be seen in this world. It comes from five years, which are 500 Parsas of the tree of life, and then it is apparent that she is an offshoot of ZA, who is called \u201cthe tree of life,\u201d and spans over 500 Parsas. The seventy years are that very same tree, the seventh in the degrees of the Nukva, the seventh Sefira of the seven Sefirot HGT NHYM. At that time, it is apparent that the soul is an offshoot of ZA and Nukva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
44) Then, the soul comes out of the filth of the serpent and enters the holy work. It is written, \u201cWhen he departed from Haran,\u201d from that Haron Af [wrath] and from the power of Satan, who until now was inciting the body and governing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
45) The foreskin rules over the tree for three years, which are called \u201cthe foreskin years.\u201d In a man, the thirteen years are called \u201chis foreskin years.\u201d When the body completes those years and the soul awakens to do the holy work, it commands the body and evokes a good will in it: to subdue that serpent. At that time, the serpent cannot rule over him as it did before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
46) \u201cAnd Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his nephew.\u201d \u201cSarai his wife\u201d is the body, which, to the soul, is as the female to the male. \u201cLot his nephew\u201d is the serpent, which does not let go of the body even after thirteen years, since the adhesion of the body does not depart from him, but the awakening of the soul always strikes him and warns him. It admonishes him and surrenders him against his will, and he cannot rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
47) \u201cAnd all their substance that they had gathered\u201d are the good deeds that a person does in this world by the force of the awakening of the soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd the souls that they had made in Haran\u201d is that soul that was initially in adhesion and connection of the foreskin and the body, and which the soul later corrected. The desiring soul is one that has close proximity to the desires of the body and the shells. From thirteen years onward, when the soul awakens to correct the body, both of them\u2014the soul with the body\u2014correct that soul, which was mingled with the strength of the judgments of the serpent and his ill will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is written, \u201cAnd the souls that they had made in Haran.\u201d \u201cMade\u201d is in plural form [in Hebrew], since it relates to the soul and to the body, for both correct the soul\u2014by the awakening of the soul, when it evokes the body\u2014and the body\u2014through its good deeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
48) This is why the soul attacks that serpent, to break it by the power of enslavement of repentance, as it is written, \u201cAnd Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem.\u201d Shechem is the dwelling place of the Shechina [Divinity], since the power of the serpent had by now been completely broken by the soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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