{"id":13197,"date":"2025-12-23T22:40:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&p=13197"},"modified":"2025-12-23T22:40:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:40:31","slug":"fish-before-meat","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/fish-before-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"228. Fish before Meat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I heard on Adar<\/em> 1, February 21, 1947, Tiberias<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reason that in a meal we eat fish first is that fish are given free, without preparation. This is why they are eaten first, as they do not require preparation, as it is written, \u201cWe remember the fish that we ate in Egypt for nothing.\u201d And The Zohar<\/em> interprets \u201cfor nothing\u201d as without Mitzvot<\/em>[commandments], meaning without preparation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And why do fish not require preparation? The thing is that we see that a fish is only considered Rosh<\/em> [head]; it has no hands or legs. A fish is discerned as \u201cJoseph halved a fish and found a Margalit<\/em> [gemstone] in its flesh.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Margalit<\/em> means Meragel<\/em> [spy], and a fish means that there is no negotiation there. This is the meaning of the absence of hands and legs. And \u201chalved\u201d means that through the rise of Malchut<\/em> to Bina<\/em>, each degree has been halved, and by this division, a place was made for the Meragelim<\/em>. Thus, the whole negotiation was only over the Meragelim<\/em>, as the whole Torah extends from here. This is the meaning of the Margalit<\/em> hanging on his neck, and anyone who was sick would look at it and heal immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, there is no reward in the discernment of the fish alone, except that it is free, as it is written, \u201cwhich we ate in Egypt for nothing.\u201d \u201cAn open eye, which never sleeps, needs no guarding,\u201d since the matter of the fish is considered Hochma<\/em> [wisdom] and Shabbat [Sabbath], which precede the Torah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Torah means negotiation. This is the meaning of \u201cI could not find my hands and legs in the seminary,\u201d meaning that there was no negotiation. \u201cFor nothing\u201d means without negotiation, and \u201cTorah\u201d is called \u201cthe next world,\u201d discerned as \u201csatiated and delighted,\u201d and that the satiation does not quench the pleasure, as it is the pleasure of the soul. However, in the discernment of \u201cThe Shabbat that precedes the Torah,\u201d considered Hochma<\/em>, it comes to a state of Guf<\/em> [body], and the Guf<\/em> is a boundary, where the satiation quenches the pleasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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