261) Through awakening below, there is awakening above, as it is written, \u201cI am my beloved’s, and his desire is for me.\u201d This is so because there is no awakening above before there is awakening below, and the blessings above are present only where there is substance, not in an empty place, without substance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
262) How do we know that? From Ovadiah\u2019s wife, to whom Elisha said, \u201cTell me, what do you have in the house,\u201d since there are no blessings above on an empty table or an empty place. This is why it is written about Ovadiah\u2019s wife, \u201cAnd she said, \u2018Your maidservant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil.\u2019\u201d And why a jar? It is because it contained only enough for oiling the finger, meaning VAK without Rosh, which is called \u201cthe little finger,\u201d a severed Vav.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
263) Elisha said, \u201cYou have comforted me, for I did not know how there would be blessings above in an empty place. But now that you have oil, it is a place in which there will be blessings because there are blessings in the oil.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
264) But it is written, \u201cIt is like the dew of Hermon coming down upon the mountains of Zion.\u201d This is adjacent to the words \u201cFor there the Lord commanded the blessing.\u201d And it does not say \u201coil\u201d but \u201cdew.\u201d Thus, dew is the place of the blessing, not the oil. However, it is oil and it is dew, meaning they are both the same discernment, since this dew is what the Creator threw from the upper oil, and this oil comes out to the right side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
265) They are two, wine and oil, and they go to two sides\u2014wine to the left and oil to the right. From the right, the blessings come out to the world. Also, the holy kingship is anointed from there to the kings of Israel. And because the oil was first corrected below\u2014for she had only \u201ca jar of oil,\u201d an awakening below\u2014oil came down from above, which is the emptying of the blessings from above, an awakening above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
266) Out of the awakening above of this oil, it is about to bestow upon David and Solomon, so they will both be blessed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
267) We learn from the table of the showbread, from which blessings and nourishments come forth to the world, that it must not be empty for even a moment so the blessings will not pass away from there. Similarly, it is forbidden to bless on an empty table since the blessings from above are not present on an empty table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
268) It is written, \u201cI am my beloved’s, and his desire is for me.\u201d In the beginning, \u201cI am my beloved\u2019s,\u201d and afterwards, \u201cand his desire is for me.\u201d \u201cI am my beloved’s\u201d is to first set up a place for him with an awakening from below, and then, \u201cand his desire is for me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
269) The Shechina is not present with the wicked. When a person comes to purify and bring himself closer to the Creator, the Shechina is over him. It is written about it, \u201cI am my beloved’s,\u201d first, and then, \u201cAnd his desire is for me,\u201d since when one comes to purify, he is purified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
270) After these things, when Abraham chased the kings and the Creator killed them, Abraham was astonished. He said, \u201cPerhaps I missed all of that reward when I was bringing people in penance to the Creator and held them to bring them closer to him, since now people were killed by me?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Promptly, the Creator told him, \u201cFear not, Abram, I am your shield, your reward shall be very great.\u201d In other words, you are being rewarded for them, for them being killed, since all of them will never be rewarded with reforming their deeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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