{"id":12813,"date":"2025-12-19T18:28:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=12813"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:28:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:28:57","slug":"definitions-2","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/definitions-2\/","title":{"rendered":"563. Definitions \u2013 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fire as a lion, fire as a dog: Fire is the foundation of the&nbsp;<em>KLA<\/em>, as it is in falling. It is&nbsp;<em>Hesed<\/em>, as strong as a lion. It is also the sense of sight, under which the act becomes established, whether good or bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a memory in the book:&nbsp;<em>Sefer<\/em>&nbsp;[book] comes from the word&nbsp;<em>Sof<\/em>&#8211;<em>Ohr<\/em>&nbsp;[end of light], as in gatekeepers. It is as the Creator said to Moses, \u201cWrite this,\u201d etc., for the written word is not always remembered, and the solution is, \u201cAnd he found it written,\u201d since in time, it is forgotten, and through the&nbsp;<em>Sof<\/em>&#8211;<em>Ohr<\/em>, he remembered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amalek and the tearing of the Red Sea: These are two opposites. The tearing of the Red Sea is the departure and concealment of fire of a layperson, the last discernment, called \u201cdog.\u201d This is the meaning of \u201cBut against any of the sons of Israel a dog will not bark.\u201d For this reason, \u201cJudah became His holy place,\u201d the quality of&nbsp;<em>AVI<\/em>, the sanctity in the fire of the High One, and their leader jumped into the sea and walked as though on land. And the Egyptians, who followed them like a dog from their beginning, since the last discernment has been torn and vanished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that time, \u201cSix hundred choice men\u201d were delighted. This is&nbsp;<em>VAK<\/em>&nbsp;<em>de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Gadlut<\/em>, \u201cwith officers in all of them,\u201d meaning that their&nbsp;<em>GAR<\/em>&nbsp;also appeared to them. This is the meaning of \u201cEgypt was chasing them,\u201d in singular form [in Hebrew].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that time, \u201cThe horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea,\u201d \u201clike a stone into raging waters,\u201d since these waters, in which there was the quality of dog, water of&nbsp;<em>MIKVEHON<\/em>&nbsp;when Israel already stood as a wall, in regard to the tearing. \u201cDid not bark,\u201d etc., they were reawakened over the Egyptians and fell into the waves of the sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rephidim: Since they came to Rephidim, that dog, who drowned the officers of Pharaoh, returned. This is the meaning of \u201cAnd you are tired and weary and not fearing God,\u201d for because the last discernment has been torn from them, they were resurrected as&nbsp;<em>OMETZ<\/em>, which is the plundering of the sea. Naturally, they did not have any fear because there was no barking dog. Thus, they tried the Creator again, \u201cIs the Lord among us, or not?\u201d as did the officers of Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then they did not have water to drink, like a blocking under the&nbsp;<em>OMETZ<\/em>, called \u201cdry without water\u201d (and although even inside the sea they came in dryness and were not tired, and a handmaid by the sea saw, etc., and babies in their mothers\u2019 wombs sang, it was for that time the reason for the miracle of the salvation from Egypt, and there was no time to be thirsty for water).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then he struck the rock and water poured out. That is, Moses let down his hand. It is known that when he let it down, Amalek prevailed. Hence, \u201cAnd Amalek came.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The words of RASHI: There is an allegory about a father, etc., you saw the father: The Creator has already carried him on His shoulders, as in \u201cLike an eagle that stirs up its nest \u2026 will carry him on His wing,\u201d as in, a lion. He gave them an object: the plundering of Egypt, and he gave them the plundering of the sea, since they were granted with great possessions from Egypt, as in the woman lending from her neighbor, since when the evil&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>&nbsp;[shell\/peel] hangs her stench on the upper one, and they sat on the meat-pots that the Lord had killed, meaning carcasses killed by prey, and not slaughtered by man (from the&nbsp;<em>MIKVEHON<\/em>) although the matter is known to begin with (that it is a land that is not theirs), that there is nothing wrong here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And no iron tool was heard, God forbid, for by this disclosure they went out from there, as in \u201cI and not a messenger.\u201d And yet, the thieves already had a great many vessels of silver and vessels of gold. This is the meaning of \u201cAnd every woman shall borrow from her neighbor.\u201d It follows that a seed of holiness, who do not possess and who are powerless to understand anything about the work of the&nbsp;<em>Kelim<\/em>&nbsp;[vessels], through the enslavement by the&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>&nbsp;of Egypt against their will, had the right to also borrow into their own possession for some time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Afterward, \u201cThe man Moses was great in the eyes of Pharaoh.\u201d They recognized the children of Israel, that they were descendants of holiness, and the matter became known. Nevertheless, they had favor for them and they gave them the&nbsp;<em>Kelim<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plundering of Egypt: This is the disclosure of&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>, since from the time when they were enslaved by the strewn upper light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plundering of the sea: This is the rising, since they came into a dry land. This is the meaning of \u201cThe Lord will be king,\u201d since \u201cThey saw Egypt dead upon the seashore.\u201d That is,&nbsp;<em>HaVaYaH<\/em>&nbsp;fought, since the water stood like a wall, from&nbsp;<em>KLA<\/em>, a lion, to their right, and from&nbsp;<em>MIKVEHON<\/em>, a dog, to their left. And they came in the dry land (as in,&nbsp;<em>Har Horev<\/em>&nbsp;[mountain of dryness]) inside the sea. And there they had all the abundance of Egypt in their possession, which they had lent them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Afterward, when the Egyptians followed them, the upper water from the right returned and covered the chariots, and then the children of Israel were saved and said, \u201cThis is my God and I will praise Him,\u201d and they did not want to return to the door of the abyss in&nbsp;<em>MIKVEHON<\/em>&nbsp;in the work of the officers. 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