{"id":13479,"date":"2025-12-30T12:37:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=13479"},"modified":"2026-01-26T02:41:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T02:41:01","slug":"the-elect-men-of-the-assembly","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/the-elect-men-of-the-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elect Men of the Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>9) \u201cElect\u201d is written without a&nbsp;<em>Yod<\/em>&nbsp;[in Hebrew].&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;on earth is as the&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;in the firmament. In other words, the&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;below is like the&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;above. All those high&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;that the Holy Name grips come from a place called \u201cHoliness,\u201d upper&nbsp;<em>AVI<\/em>, as it is written, \u201cHoly convocations.\u201d This is when there is an occasion in the world, on festivals and on appointed days. And as those high&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;are called \u201cthe Upper Temple,\u201d to sanctify them, the bottom Holiness summons His armies to crown and elevate them\u2014the three worlds&nbsp;<em>BYA<\/em>\u2014which are her armies, which the&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;crowns and elevates to&nbsp;<em>Atzilut<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10) The Upper Holiness is upper&nbsp;<em>AVI<\/em>; the bottom Holiness is the wisdom of Solomon,&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, who also summoned all her armies to sanctify them with her sanctity. Those armies all stand ready to be crowned in the lower holiness while there is an appointed day in the world. As her armies stand above in&nbsp;<em>Atzilut<\/em>, summoned by&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, so the appointees of the people, the heads of Israel, follow her example below in this world. This is why they are called \u201cThe elect men of the assembly.\u201d And because they are below, they are called, \u201cElect men of the assembly,\u201d without a&nbsp;<em>Yod<\/em>. However, then they are in greater wholeness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11) \u201cRenowned men,\u201d the men of&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, who is called \u201cname,\u201d and not men of&nbsp;<em>HaVaYaH<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>. This is why they are called \u201cRenowned men,\u201d since they came from the side of&nbsp;<em>Gevura<\/em>, from&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, which is called \u201clower&nbsp;<em>Gevura<\/em>.\u201d This is said to give them high praise, but they took it for themselves, separating&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>&nbsp;and clinging to the dispute with Moses,&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9) \u201cElect\u201d is written without a&nbsp;Yod&nbsp;[in Hebrew].&nbsp;Malchut&nbsp;on earth is as the&nbsp;Malchut&nbsp;in the firmament. In other words, the&nbsp;Malchut&nbsp;below is like the&nbsp;Malchut&nbsp;above. 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