{"id":12942,"date":"2025-12-21T01:17:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&p=12942"},"modified":"2025-12-21T01:17:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:17:59","slug":"he-who-delights-the-shabbat","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/he-who-delights-the-shabbat\/","title":{"rendered":"125. He Who Delights the Shabbat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I heard on Sivan<\/em> 8, June 15, 1949, Tel-Aviv<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnyone who delights the Shabbat<\/em> [Sabbath] is given an unbounded domain, as it is said, \u2018Then shall you delight yourself in the Lord, and I will make you to ride upon the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father,\u2019 etc. Unlike Abraham, about whom it is written, \u2018Arise, walk through the land in the length of it,\u2019 etc. And not as Isaac, as it is written, \u2018for unto you and unto your seed I will give all these lands,\u2019 but as Jacob, about whom it is written, \u2018and you shall spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south\u2019\u201d (Shabbat<\/em> 118).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is difficult to understand this Gemara<\/em> as it is. Should every one of Israel be given the whole world, an unbounded domain?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We should begin with the words of our sages: \u201cIn the future, the Creator will take the sun out of its sheath and will darken. The wicked are judged by it, and the righteous are healed by it, as it is written, \u2018For behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace, and all the evildoers and all that work wickedness shall be stubble; and the day that comes shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch,\u2019 neither a root in this world nor a branch in the next world.\u201d The righteous are healed by it, as it is written, \u201c\u2018But unto you who fear My Name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings.\u2019 And moreover, they are refined by it\u201d (Avoda Zarah<\/em> 3b).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We need to understand the riddle of the sages, what is a sun, what is a sheath, and from where this oppositeness comes. Also, what is \u201cneither a root in this world nor a branch in the next world\u201d? And what is \u201cMoreover, they are refined by it\u201d? He should have said, \u201chealed and refined by it.\u201d Also, what is the \u201cmoreover\u201d that he said?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now we can understand the words of our sages: \u201cIsrael count by the moon and the nations of the world, by the sun\u201d (Sukkah<\/em> 29). Thus, the sunlight is an epithet to the clearest knowledge, as it is written, \u201cas clear as the sun.\u201d And the nations of the world, who did not receive the Torah and Mitzvot<\/em>[commandments], as it is written that the Creator brought it to every nation and tongue, since they did not want to enjoy the light of the Torah, considered \u201cthe moon,\u201d which receives from His light, being the light of the sun, meaning the common light. Yet, they do have craving and desire to study the Creator and to know Him, Himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Israel count by the moon, which are the Torah and Mitzvot<\/em>, where the sunlight is clothed within them. Hence, the Torah is the sheath of the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is written in The Zohar<\/em> that \u201cthe Torah and the Creator are one.\u201d This means that the light of the Creator is clothed in the Torah and Mitzvot<\/em>, and He and His sheath are one. Hence, Israel count by the moon to complement themselves in Torah and Mitzvot<\/em>. Therefore, they are naturally awarded the Creator, too. Yet, since the nations of the world do not keep the Torah and Mitzvot<\/em>, meaning the sheath, they do not have even the light of the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the meaning of \u201cIn the future, He brings the sun out of its sheath.\u201d And they said, \u201cShechina<\/em> [Divinity] in the lower ones; a high need,\u201d meaning that the Creator craves it and yearns for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the meaning of the six workdays, meaning the work in Torah and Mitzvot<\/em>, since \u201cThe Lord has made everything for His own purpose.\u201d And even the work on the weekdays is still the work of the Creator, as it is written, \u201cHe created it not a waste; He formed it to be inhabited.\u201d This is why it is called \u201ca sheath.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the Shabbat is the light of the sun, the day of rest in the eternal life. That is, He has prepared the world in two degrees: 1) that His Shechina<\/em> [Divinity] would be revealed through the Torah and Mitzvot<\/em> in the six workdays, 2) that He will be revealed in the world without the Torah and Mitzvot<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the meaning of \u201cin its time, I will hasten it.\u201d Rewarded\u2014I will hasten it, meaning through Torah and Mitzvot<\/em>. Not rewarded\u2014in its time, since the evolution of creation with all the suffering brings the end and redemption to humanity, until the Creator places His Shechina<\/em> in the lower ones. This is called \u201cin its time,\u201d through evolution over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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