357) \u201cYour people are all righteous.\u201d Happy are Israel from among all the peoples, for the Creator has called them \u201crighteous.\u201d 125,000 birds walk and roam throughout the world; they hear a voice and accept the voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
358) There is nothing in the world without a voice. It walks and it roams in the firmament, and the birds catch it and raise that voice for MAN to ZON, and sentence it for better or for worse, as it is written, \u201cFor a bird of the air shall carry the voice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The righteous raise MAN, meaning the screen of Hirik, to the middle line, which unites the Creator and His Shechina through good deeds that the righteous do in the daytime. When the deeds below are upright and man exerts in the work of the holy King, vapor is made out of them, which rises up as MAN, and there is no vapor without a voice. In other words, it becomes a middle line, which is called \u201ca voice.\u201d Also, it becomes an advocate before the Creator, meaning unites the Creator and His Shechina, and all the deeds that are not the work of the Creator, vapor is made of them, which is the breaking of the wind, as it is written, \u201cHevel [vapor, also vanity] and chasing after the wind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thus, vapor rises out of each deed, and the vapor becomes a voice. If it is good, it rises for MAN to unite ZA and Nukva. The angels that serve in the unification of ZON\u2014to receive the MAN from the righteous and to bring down to them from the level of the coupling\u2014are called \u201cbirds\u201d or \u201cfowls.\u201d They are called \u201cbirds\u201d because they only have the level of VAK, the light of Ruach [wind], called Avir [air]. This is an intimation that they fly in the air like birds when they receive the MAN, which is called \u201cvoice,\u201d as it is written, \u201cFor a bird of the air shall carry the voice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the coupling, when they give the level of the coupling, called \u201cspeech,\u201d to the righteous, they have GAR, but they diminish the GAR of Hochma with their wings so they will not draw from above downward. They are called \u201cbirds,\u201d as it is written, \u201cAnd that which has wings shall tell the matter.\u201d \u201cTell\u201d implies extension and bestowal, and \u201cmatter\u201d is the level of the coupling, which is called \u201cspeech.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The number 125,000 birds stands for the level of the coupling that they draw by the force of the MAN that they raise. The coupling is extended from the three lines, and there is complete NRNHY in the two lines\u2014right and left\u2014which are clothed in the five Sefirot KHB TM. However, there, their middle line is NR that is clothed in the two Sefirot KH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And since they are from ZA, that each of his Sefirot is ten, they have fifty Sefirot from the right line and fifty Sefirot from the left line, KHB TM, where each of them consists of ten. Also, they have twenty from the two Sefirot KH in the middle line, thus 120. With respect to the Malchut that is attached to the middle line, they have only half the Malchut, from the Chazeh and above, and they lack the half of Malchut from the Chazeh and below. Thus, they have only five Sefirot from her and not ten. Added to the 120 from the three lines, they have 125 Sefirot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the name \u201cbirds\u201d is primarily because they correct the light of Hochma and cover the GAR with their wings. And since they are acting on the Hochma, whose Sefirot are thousands, they are discerned as the number 125,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
359) When is this voice judged? In other words, when does the voice rise for MAN to ZON? When a person lies asleep and the soul leaves him and testifies to that person. Then the voice is judged, when it rises for MAN, if the soul testifies favorably. It is written, \u201cKeep the doors of your mouth from her that lies in your bosom,\u201d since she testifies to a person. \u201cFrom her that lies in your bosom\u201d refers to the soul. Everything that a person does throughout the day, the soul testifies about him at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
360) At the start of the first hour of the night, when the day breathes and the sun sets, the one with the keys, Matat, the minister of the world\u2014who is appointed over the sun, to draw her light to the world\u2014enters the twelve gates of the sun that are open during the day, meaning the twelve hours of the day. Once he has entered all of them, at the end of the twelfth hour, all those gates are closed. This means that the reign of the day is through, and it is time for the reign of the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
361) At that time, a herald stands and begins to call out loud, since every change is done with a herald. The announcer, Angel Gabriel, rises and grips those keys, meaning the forces that are extended from the sweetened Malchut, which is called key, which are in Matat\u2019s possession during the day. The herald\u2014through the force of the keys\u2014extends the darkness. And when the herald is through, all those guards of the world gather and rise from the world, and there is no one to open a vent and draw a little illumination, for they all become silent. At that time, the judgments below awaken\u2014those of the unmitigated Malchut\u2014and walk and roam the world, and the moon begins to shine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
362) The wailers\u2014the forces of the judgment that evoke wailing and howling in the world\u2014trumpet and howl a trumpet, and trumpet again. Then the singing awakens, and the angels sing before their Master.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are twelve hours in the day and twelve hours in the night, meaning HB TM. Each of them does not have HB TM, but only HB and Tifferet, since Malchut is missing in each of them. On the one hand, there is Malchut, since there are four faces, HB TM, which is Malchut that is sweetened in Bina. On the other hand, Malchut is absent because there are only three in each of them, and not four, which is Malchut itself that was concealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Without this correction, ZON would not be fit for reception of the upper lights. Hence, there is a correction of the twelve hours of the daytime and a correction of the twelve hours at night. However, during the day, they are corrected through the forces of Hesed, and at night, they are corrected through the forces of judgment, which are called \u201cwailers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is why the wailers, which are the forces of judgment that evoke wailing and howling in the world, trumpet and howl a shout, and trumpet again, drawing three lines. The first trumpeting is the right line. Howling, broken trumpeting, and shouting is the left line, and the second trumpeting is the middle line. By that, the night is corrected in twelve hours, since each line contains HB TM, thus they are twelve. And since by that the night is corrected, the singing awakens and the angels sing before their Master that it is time to sing. These are the three shifts of the night during which the angels sing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Several defenders exist to protect the judgments and evoke judgments in the world. At that time, people are asleep and the soul exits the body, gives her testimony, and is found guilty, because it is written, \u201cThere is not a righteous man on earth who … does not sin.\u201d But the Creator is gracious with the man, and the soul returns to her place in the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
363) At midnight, when the roosters awaken, the north side awakens in Ruach [wind], meaning the left line in illumination of Shuruk, meaning illumination of Hochma with absence of Hassadim, GAR of Ruach. The scepter, the south side\u2014right line, Hassadim\u2014rises and mingles with that Ruach of the left line, and they mingle with one another. At that time, the judgments of the left line rest and it is sweetened in Hassadim. Then the Creator awakens in His custom to play with the righteous in the Garden of Eden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
364) At that time, happy is a man who rises to play in the Torah, since the Creator and all the righteous in the Garden of Eden listen to his voice, as it is written, \u201cYou who dwells in the gardens, the friends are listening to your voice; let me hear it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
365) Moreover, the Creator draws upon him a thread of grace, to keep him in the world so that the upper ones and lower ones will guard him, as it is written, \u201cBy day the Lord will command His grace; and in the night, His song is with me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
366) Anyone who engages in Torah at that time will certainly have a permanent part in the next world. What is permanent? These Mochin are extended from YESHSUT, whose coupling is intermittent and not permanent. But each midnight, when the Creator awakens in the Garden of Eden, all those plantings\u2014the Sefirot in the Garden of Eden, the Nukva\u2014will be watered abundantly from that stream, which is called \u201ca primordial stream,\u201d \u201ca stream of delights,\u201d \u201cupper AVI,\u201d whose waters never stop, meaning that the coupling of AVI never stops. And one who rises and engages in the Torah, it is as though that stream pours down on his head and waters him inside the plantings in the Garden of Eden. Hence, he has a permanent share in the Mochin of the next world, too, meaning YESHSUT, since the Mochin of AVI contain the Mochin of YESHSUT within them, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
367) Moreover, since all the righteous in the Garden of Eden listen to him, they put a share for him in that potion of the stream, which are the Mochin of upper AVI. It turns out that he has a perpetual part for the next world, which are included in Mochin of AVI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
368) Rabbi Abba was on the road. In the evening, he went into a village. When he wished to lie down, he told the landlord, \u201cSince I rise precisely at midnight, I need a rooster to wake me up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
369) The landlord told him, \u201cYou do not need a rooster, since I have a ready mark in the house. This scale before my bed, I fill a vessel with water and place it on one of the pans in the scale, and the water drips one drop at a time through a hole in the vessel. Precisely at midnight, the water is completely emptied and the pan rises while the other pan drops down and makes noise as it falls, and the noise is heard throughout the house. And then it is precisely midnight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
370) It is written, \u201cMidnight, I will rise to give thanks unto You.\u201d What did David see that he said \u201cMidnight,\u201d and not \u201cAt midnight\u201d? \u201cMidnight,\u201d surely he said it to the Creator, whom he called \u201cMidnight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
371) But is the Creator called \u201cMidnight\u201d? Yes, for precisely at midnight, the Creator and His company are present, and this is the time when He enters the Garden of Eden to play with the righteous. Each name indicates an attainment, that we attain the Creator through that name. And since the conduct of the Creator is to appear in the Garden of Eden at midnight, David called him \u201cMidnight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
373) At the beginning of the first hour of the night, all the judgments below awaken, the judgments of Malchut that are not sweetened in Bina, and walk and roam in the world. Precisely at midnight, the Creator awakens and comes to the Garden of Eden, the Nukva, and the judgments below disappear and are not present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
374) All the ways above, the ways of Bina that sweeten the Nukva, are not present at night, but only precisely at midnight. How do we know this? From Abraham, of whom it is written, \u201cAnd he divided himself against them by night.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Concerning Egypt, it is written, \u201cAnd it came to pass at midnight,\u201d for then the Nukva was sweetened in Bina and her lights appeared. David knew that, and this is why he said, \u201cMidnight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
375) How did David know that? David\u2019s kingdom was dependent on the illumination of the Mochin of midnight. This is why he rose at that time and sang, and this is why he called the Creator \u201cMidnight,\u201d precisely, \u201cI will rise to give thanks unto You,\u201d since then all the judgments are dependent on the sweetened Nukva at midnight. This is so because the judgments below have already vanished, and the judgments of Malchut are present only from here and not from her unmitigated self. Hence, at that time, David connected with her and rose and sang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
376) Night is judgment everywhere. It writes \u201cMidnight\u201d because at midnight the kingdom of heaven awakens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
377) Night is the time when the judgment of Malchut rules. Just \u201cnight\u201d is always judgment. When it says, \u201cMidnight,\u201d it is because then the Malchut suckles in two phases, judgment and Hesed. The first half of the night is judgment, since the other half, the face, shines from the side of Hesed. This is why it writes, \u201cMidnight,\u201d the half of Hesed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
379) \u201cYour people are all righteous.\u201d What is the reason that it writes, \u201cYour people are all righteous\u201d? Are all of Israel righteous? Surely there are several wicked ones among Israel, several sinners, and a few transgressors who break the commandments of the Torah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
380) Happy are Israel, for they offer a sacrifice of will before the Creator; they offer their sons as offering for eight days. When they are circumcised, they enter that good part of the Creator, as it is written, \u201cthe righteous is an everlasting foundation.\u201d Once they have entered that part of the righteous thanks to the circumcision, they are called \u201crighteous.\u201d Surely, they are all righteous because all of them were circumcised, even the wicked ones among Israel. This is why the writing says, \u201cYour people are all righteous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
381) This is why it is written, \u201cThey shall inherit the land forever; the branch of My planting.\u201d The Shechina is called \u201cland,\u201d as it is written, \u201cOpen to me the gates of righteousness; I will enter into them.\u201d It is also written, \u201cThis is the gate of the Lord; the righteous shall enter into it,\u201d meaning those who were circumcised and are called \u201crighteous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Land is Malchut [Heb: kingdom], and since they were circumcised, they are called \u201crighteous,\u201d and the gates of righteousness are opened to them, the gates of the kingdom. Thus, all of Israel will inherit the land, for because they were circumcised, the gates are opened before them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe branch of My planting\u201d is a branch of those plantings that the Creator planted in the Garden of Eden; this land is one of those plantings. The plantings are the ten Sefirot in the Garden of Eden, and the Malchut in them is called \u201cland.\u201d This is why Israel has a good share in the next world, as it is written, \u201cYour people are all righteous; they shall inherit the land forever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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