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Concerning the Groom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The Zohar<\/em>, August 1977<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason why there is such a requirement to delight the groom is that&nbsp;<em>Hatan<\/em>&nbsp;[groom] comes from word&nbsp;<em>Nachut<\/em>&nbsp;[inferior] in degree, as our sages said, \u201cOne who is of inferior degree receives a woman.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the holy names are not His essence, since \u201cThere is no perception or thought in Him whatsoever.\u201d Rather, all the names are what they attained, as Maimonides said, \u201cWhat we do not attain, we do not know by name.\u201d Rather, all the names are according to how they attained Him. Thus, one who received&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;[wisdom] from the Creator calls the Creator \u201cWise,\u201d and one who received&nbsp;<em>Gevura<\/em>&nbsp;[strength] from the Creator calls Him \u201cStrong,\u201d and so forth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By this we can understand what our sages said, \u201cWhy were they called \u2018Members of the Great Assembly\u2019? It is because they restored the former glory. That is, Daniel and Jeremiah could not say, \u2018The Mighty and the Terrible,\u2019 and the members of the great assembly did say it,\u201d as explained in&nbsp;<em>Masechet Kidushin<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, when we say&nbsp;<em>Hatan<\/em>&nbsp;[groom] in the sense of&nbsp;<em>Nachut<\/em>&nbsp;[inferior] in degree, it is when a person does not feel the greatness of the Creator because he is in a low state. When the person himself is in a state of being on a low degree, he calls the Creator \u201cGroom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our sages said, \u201cA disciple in exile, his teacher is exiled with him.\u201d Baal HaSulam interpreted that when one is in a state of \u201cexile,\u201d meaning that the&nbsp;<em>Kedusha<\/em>&nbsp;[holiness] threw him out from the land of Israel, he says that his teacher is also like him, meaning that his teacher is also in lowliness. Therefore, his teacher cannot help him out of the state he is in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this reason, a person must delight the groom, meaning that then, too, a person must serve the Creator with gladness. For this reason, at the end of correction, when everything has been corrected, \u201cThe whole earth will be full \u2026 and they shall all know Him, from the least of them to the greatest of them.\u201d In other words, even though he was previously on an inferior degree, at that time they will be corrected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the meaning of \u201cWill rejoice over you \u2026 as the groom rejoices over the bride,\u201d so even one who is on an inferior degree will be rewarded with joy because everything will be corrected. This is why we are required to increase the joy of the groom, for the corporeal branch implies the spirituality, which is that one should try, specifically when he is on a low degree, to increase the joy as though he were in utter completeness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zohar, August 1977 The reason why there is such a requirement to delight the groom is that&nbsp;Hatan&nbsp;[groom] comes from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":6246,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"topic":[26],"class_list":["post-12728","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-rabash"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kabbalah | 534. 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