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Sukkot<\/em> Inter 4, September 30, 1942, Jerusalem<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is known that the departure of the\u00a0Mochin<\/em>\u00a0and the cessation of the\u00a0Zivug<\/em> occur only to the additions of the\u00a0Mochin<\/em>, and the core of the degree in\u00a0ZON<\/em>\u00a0is\u00a0Vav<\/em>\u00a0and a\u00a0Nekuda<\/em>\u00a0[dot]. This means that, at its essence,\u00a0Malchut<\/em>\u00a0has no more than a dot, a black dot that has no white in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If one accepts that dot as the core, and not as something superfluous that one wishes to be rid of, but moreover, he accepts it as adornment, it is called \u201ca handsome abode in one\u2019s heart.\u201d This is because he does not condemn this servitude, but makes it essential to him. This is called \u201craising the\u00a0Shechina<\/em> [Divinity] from the dust.\u201d When one sustains the basis as his core, he can never fall from his degree, since there is no departure in the core.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When one takes upon himself to work as a black dot, where even in the blackest darkness in the world, the Shechina<\/em> says, \u201cThere is no place to hide from You.\u201d Hence, \u201cI am tied to Him in one knot,\u201d \u201cand it will never be detached.\u201d Because of this, he has no cessation of Dvekut<\/em> [adhesion].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If some illumination, called \u201caddition,\u201d comes to him from above, he accepts it by way of \u201cunavoidable and unintended,\u201d since it comes from the Emanator, without the lower one\u2019s awakening. This is the meaning of \u201cI am black, but beautiful,\u201d because if you can accept the blackness, you will see that I am beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the meaning of \u201cWho is gullible, let him come here.\u201d When he turns from all his engagements and wants only to work in order to benefit the Creator, and works by way of \u201cI was a beast with You,\u201d then he is rewarded with seeing the final perfection. This is the meaning of \u201ca heartless one, she said to him.\u201d This means that since he was heartless, he had to be thoughtless; otherwise, he would not be able to approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But sometimes we encounter a state of Shechina<\/em> in exile, when the dot descends to the separated BYA<\/em>. At that time, he is called \u201cAs a lily among thorns,\u201d since it has the shape of thorns and thistles. In that state, it cannot be accepted, since it is the domination of the Klipot<\/em> [shells\/peels].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes through man\u2019s actions, as man\u2019s actions below affect the root of one\u2019s soul above, in the Shechina<\/em>. This means that if a person below is enslaved to the will to receive, he thus makes the Klipa<\/em> [sing. of Klipot<\/em>] reign over the Kedusha<\/em> [holiness] above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the meaning of Tikkun Hatzot<\/em> [midnight correction]. We pray to raise the Shechina<\/em> from the dust, meaning to elevate it, to be important, as above and below are calculations of importance. And then it is considered a black dot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Tikkun Hatzot<\/em> he prevails and says that he wants to keep the verse of \u201cLibni and Shimei.\u201d Libni means Lavan<\/em> [white], and not black, and Shimei means Shmi\u2019a<\/em> [hearing], meaning reasonability, which means that assuming the burden of the kingdom of heaven is a reasonable and acceptable matter for him. And the Tikkun Hatzot<\/em> is the Tikkun<\/em> of the Mehitza<\/em> [partition], the correction of separating the Kedusha<\/em> from the Klipa<\/em>, meaning to correct the bad feeling within the will to receive, and connect to the desire to bestow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Golah<\/em> [exile] has the letters of Ge<\/em>\u2019ulah<\/em> [redemption], with the difference being the Aleph<\/em>. This means that we must extend the Aluf<\/em> [champion] of the world into the Golah<\/em>, and then we immediately feel the Ge<\/em>\u2019ulah<\/em>. This is the meaning of \u201cHe who could guard the harmful must compensate the harmed with the best kind that one has.\u201d This is the meaning of \u201cwhen there is judgment below, there is no judgment above.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sukkot Inter 4, September 30, 1942, Jerusalem It is known that the departure of the\u00a0Mochin\u00a0and the cessation of the\u00a0Zivug occur only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":6231,"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":[25],"class_list":["post-12944","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-baal-hasulam"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nKabbalah | 127. 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