{"id":13934,"date":"2026-01-06T02:59:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=13934"},"modified":"2026-01-06T02:59:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:59:37","slug":"thus-says-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/thus-says-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Thus Says the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>245. \u201cThus says the Lord, \u2018Keep justice and do righteousness, for My salvation will soon come.\u2019\u201d How beloved are Israel by the Creator; although they have sinned against Him, and they sin against Him all the time, He makes Israel\u2019s sins as mistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>246. Three gates of judgments were established in the books of the Mishnah: 1) In the four basic kinds of damages,&nbsp;<em>Baba Kama<\/em>, 2) a&nbsp;<em>Talit<\/em>&nbsp;[prayer shawl] that was found,&nbsp;<em>Baba Metzia<\/em>, 3) Partners and the matter of the loss,&nbsp;<em>Baba Batra<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason is that the Creator always makes Israel\u2019s sins as mistakes, and those who compiled the Mishnah, compiled it so in three gates:&nbsp;<em>Baba Kama, Baba Metzia, Baba Batra<\/em>. They took the way of the text, as it is written, \u201cFor any crime, for an ox, for a donkey, for a sheep, for a cloak, for any loss,\u201d it is a none-malevolent crime, since the Creator makes the sins as mistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crime is as it is written, \u201cfor an ox, for a donkey, for a sheep.\u201d This is&nbsp;<em>Baba Kama<\/em>, which speaks of these things. \u201cFor a cloak\u201d is&nbsp;<em>Baba Metzia<\/em>, which speaks of a&nbsp;<em>Talit<\/em>&nbsp;that was found. \u201cFor any loss\u201d is&nbsp;<em>Baba Batra<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>247. For they took the way of the text. When Rav Hamnuna Saba arrived at&nbsp;<em>Baba Metzia<\/em>, he would say, \u201cthe beginning,\u201d which they made with a&nbsp;<em>Talit<\/em>, since&nbsp;<em>Baba Metzia<\/em>&nbsp;begins with \u201cTwo Holding a&nbsp;<em>Talit<\/em>.\u201d Once the text about the cloak was found, he said, \u201cThis order is indeed a rule for Moses from Sinai, which all the words of the sages explained.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>248. \u201cThus says the Lord.\u201d It is written everywhere in Prophets, \u201cThus says the Lord,\u201d and in Moses, it is written, \u201cThis is the matter.\u201d Moses, whose prophecy was from a mirror that shines above, ZA, \u201cThus,\u201d is not written about it that it is Malchut. But the rest of the prophets, who were prophesying from a mirror that does not shine, Malchut, who is called Yod-hey, they prophesied from within the \u201cThus.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>249. \u201cAnd now come and curse this people for me.\u201d \u201cAnd now,\u201d that wicked one said, \u201cThe time is ripe for me to do everything I want.\u201d He saw, but he saw incompletely. He saw that several thousand from Israel fell by him in a short time. He said, \u201cNow must be the right time for me,\u201d and this is why he said, \u201cAnd now,\u201d and not in another time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>250. \u201cCome.\u201d Should it not have said \u201cgo\u201d? However, he said, \u201cLet us hurry ourselves to fight against the one who hovers over them with his wings,\u201d the one whose name is Yod-Hey, Malchut. And now let us come and make war with that Yod-Hey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>251. He said, \u201cUntil now, there was no one in the world who could defeat them because of that protector who stands over them. Now the time is ripe for us; let us make war on Yod-Hey. Every advice of that wicked one was for Yod-Hey, as it is written, \u201cwhile I meet the Lord [Yod-Hey] over there.\u201d That is, I will uproot that Yod-Hey from its place. Both conspired against that Yod-Hey, as it is written, \u201cagainst the Lord and against his anointed one.\u201d However, they did not know that afterwards, that Yod-Hey would uproot them from the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>245. \u201cThus says the Lord, \u2018Keep justice and do righteousness, for My salvation will soon come.\u2019\u201d How beloved are Israel 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