September 1978<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf you go to war.\u201d RASHI interpreted that the verse speaks of optional war. We must understand the \u201coptional war\u201d in the work. That is, in a place of commandment or in a place of transgression, it is called \u201cmandatory war,\u201d where a person must observe the Mitzvot<\/em> [commandments] to do and the Mitzvot<\/em> not to do. Only in permitted things, the war is \u201coptional.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The option pertains to the intention, meaning for whose benefit he is observing Torah and Mitzvot<\/em>, whether this will enhance man\u2019s authority, meaning that his reward will be that his will to receive will be rewarded with delight and pleasure, meaning that he takes everything into his own possession, or his reward is that he can engage in Torah and Mitzvot<\/em> for the sake of the Creator, which is in order to bestow and he wants everything to go into the singular authority, meaning the authority of the Creator, and wants to cancel his own authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is what RASHI means by \u201cThe verse speaks of optional war.\u201d At that time, the verse promises us, \u201cAnd the Lord your God delivers them into your hands,\u201d meaning that he will have the strength to subdue the Sitra<\/em> Achra<\/em> [other side].<\/p>\n\n\n\n Afterward, the verse clarifies the order of the work: \u201cAnd you see among the captives a beautiful woman,\u201d meaning the soul, which is the quality of bestowal, is in captivity. Before he began the work on the optional, he did not see that man\u2019s soul was captive among the Klipot<\/em> [shells\/peels]. \u201cAnd you desire her,\u201d meaning to elicit the soul, that his intention will be that he will have the strength to work in order to bestow. This is the meaning of \u201cand you take her for yourself as a wife and bring her into your home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n As RASHI interpreted, the Torah speaks only against the evil inclination, as our sages said, \u201cI have created the evil inclination; I have created the Torah as a spice.\u201d Hence, \u201cYour home\u201d means a place of Torah, as in \u201cIn wisdom shall a house be built,\u201d since the evil inclination controls only a heart that is vacant of wisdom, as our sages said, \u201cOne does not sin unless a spirit of folly has entered him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cShe shall shave her head.\u201d The hair on the head is regarded as judgments, for Se\u2019ara<\/em> [hair] comes from the word Se\u2019ara<\/em> [storm], which are foreign thoughts that come into the head, and he must cancel all the foreign thoughts he had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cShe shall do her Tzipornaim<\/em> [nails],\u201d from the [Aramaic] word Tzafra<\/em>, meaning \u201cday.\u201d \u201cDays\u201d are states in which one was satisfied. \u201cDoing\u201d means that he extolled them, meaning looked at all the days he had been through and found satisfaction in them, and now he sees that it was all nothing but false imagination, since all the measurements were only by what satisfied the will to receive, and how those days pushed him away from the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By this, \u201cShe shall remove her gown of captivity,\u201d meaning from the soul, \u201cand dwell in your home,\u201d meaning a home of Israel, and not in her captivity among the Klipot<\/em>, which is called \u201cShechina<\/em> [Divinity] in exile.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 1978 \u201cIf you go to war.\u201d RASHI interpreted that the verse speaks of optional war. 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