452. \u201cAnd in the morning Balak took Balaam.\u201d Balak was wiser in spells than Balaam, except for the fact that he did not know how to aim the hour for cursing, like Balaam. This is why it is written, \u201cBalak took Balaam and brought him up to Bamoth-Baal\u201d; he was correcting him and holding him for everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
453. What is \u201cand brought him up to Bamoth-Baal\u201d? He was looking at his spells, from which side of Israel he would grip, and found that Israel are destined to create bamoth [altars] and serve the Baal [name of a god], as it is written, \u201cand [they] went after worthlessness and served the Baal.\u201d \u201cAnd from there he saw a fraction of the people\u201d; he saw the great ones in the nation and their king who served him, as it is written, \u201cAnd they called the name of the Baal,\u201d and as it is written, \u201cIf the Lord is God, follow Him, and if the Baal, follow him.\u201d Since Balaam saw that Israel were destined for it, promptly, \u201cAnd Balaam said to Balak, \u2018Build for me here seven altars.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
454. Corresponding to the altars that the first ones made, he offered on seven altars. Also, he did everything wisely because he found that part of Israel connected in seven degrees, HGT NHYM<\/em>, and this is why he said, \u201cI will establish seven altars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 455. It is like a person who had a person who loved him, whom his father had left for him. People feared quarreling with him because of that one who loved him. Once, a man came and wanted to quarrel with him. He said, \u201cWhat shall I do? If I quarrel with him, he has that loving one who is connected to him, and I cannot overcome him.\u201d He sent a gift to that loving one. That loving one said, \u201cWhat has this man got to do with me? I know that he loves me because of that son whom he wants to harm.\u201d He said, \u201cThis gift shall not enter before me; summon the dogs and let them eat it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 456. Thus, Balaam came to evoke strife with Israel, but saw that he could not because of that upper one who loves them. He began to set up a gift for him\u2014the offerings he sacrificed. The Creator said, \u201cWicked one, what do you want with Me? You want to connect to My children, so your gift is given to the dogs.\u201d It is written, \u201cAnd God met Balaam.\u201d \u201cMet\u201d comes from the word \u201cnocturnal ejaculation\u201d and \u201cimpurity\u201d [in Hebrew]. Thus, your gift is given to those and will not come in before Me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 457. \u201cMet\u201d is as it is written, \u201cWho can stand before His cold.\u201d He was certain that through that gift, he would prevail over Israel. \u201cAnd God met Balaam\u201d means He cooled himself from what Balaam had thought. \u201cAnd God met\u201d means awakened the side of impurity on him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 458. \u201cMet\u201d means that Balaam thought that by that gift, he will be able to harm Israel, and the Creator uprooted that gift from him, and uprooted Balaam from what he was thinking. He uprooted him from that degree, and this is \u201cmet,\u201d as it is written, \u201cThe ravens of the valley will pick it out.\u201d He said to him, \u201cWicked one, you are unworthy of bonding with Me and entering before Me; your gift is given to a dog.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 459. That wicked one was the filth of everything, for in this entire portion, you will not find \u201cAnd God said to Balaam,\u201d or \u201cand God spoke.\u201d Rather, it is written, \u201cAnd the Lord placed the words in the mouth of Balaam,\u201d as one who places a muzzle in the mouth of a donkey so it will not veer off to here or to here. In this way, \u201cAnd the Lord placed words in the mouth of Balaam.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 460. The Creator said, \u201cWicked one, do you think that through you, a blessing will be and will exist in My children or the opposite? They do not need you. As is said to a wasp, \u2018Neither your sting nor your honey.\u2019 Rather, return to Balak, and when you open your mouth, the matter will not depend on you, but rather this is what you shall speak.\u201d \u201cThis,\u201d which is the Shechina [Divinity] is ready to bless them. \u201cThus you shall bless My children,\u201d for when you open your mouth, it will speak the words that will come true with My children, and I will not leave matters to you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 461. When Balaam came to Balak, and Balak heard that he had blessed Israel, Balak thought that they came from the mouth of Balaam. He said, \u201cI took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them abundantly.\u201d Balaam said, \u201cTake these spells in your hand, so you will detain this \u201cthis\u201d here, Malchut. If you can detain her with those spells, I will uproot her from those words she said,\u201d meaning he would cancel the blessings she had said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 462. It is written, \u201cStand here beside your burnt offering.\u201d By this, and by those spells, you will detain the \u201cthis,\u201d Malchut. \u201cWhile I meet the Lord over there,\u201d I will uproot her from those words she said. The Creator told him, \u201cWicked one, I will uproot for him.\u201d \u201cAnd God met Balaam,\u201d and that matter will raise her voice with words of \u201cthus,\u201d as it is written, \u201cReturn to Balak and thus shall you say.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 463. In the beginning, it is not written, \u201cStand here besides your offering,\u201d but rather \u201cStand beside your offering, and I will go, perhaps the Lord will come across me.\u201d When he saw that \u201cthis\u201d said those blessings, he said, \u201cStand here beside your offering, while I meet the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 464. \u201cCome, curse Jacob for me.\u201d Curse means collect, drop them from that degree where they stood. \u201cAnd I will shoot \u2026 to the side of it.\u201d He said, \u201cIf you can cast them from their degree, Malchut, then all of them will be uprooted from the world.\u201d \u201cAnd come, denounce Israel,\u201d Israel of above, ZA, meaning he will bring him into anger until he finds vexation and fury before Him, as it is written, \u201cAnd God is indignant every day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 465. \u201cFor from the top of the rocks I see him.\u201d From the top of the rocks is the fathers. \u201cAnd from the hills I behold him\u201d are the mothers. Both from the side of the fathers and from the side of the mothers, they could not be cursed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 466. \u201cFor from the top of the rocks\u201d means who can overcome Israel? Since they are gripped and come out from the top of all the rocks. Rocks are Gevurot, and all the judgments in the world emerge from these Gevurot, and they are gripped to them. \u201cFrom the hills I behold him\u201d are those rest of the camps that are gripped to the Gevurot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBehold, a people dwelling alone, and not counting itself among the nations,\u201d as it is written, \u201cThe Lord alone will guide us.\u201d Malchut, the rock, is the head of all the judgments in the world. It is after her that the Gevurot are called \u201crocks.\u201d Israel emerge from Malchut, and it is written about her, \u201cFor from the top of the rocks I see him.\u201d The expansion of Malchut in BYA is called \u201chills,\u201d and from there, there is NRN for Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 467. \u201cWho can count the dust of Jacob and number the fourth\u200e part of Israel?\u201d There are two degrees, Jacob and Israel. In the beginning, when he is in VAK, he is Jacob. Afterwards, when he attains GAR, he is Israel. Although it is all one, they are two degrees, and the top degree is Israel, and the degree of Jacob is below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 468. \u201cWho can count the dust of Jacob?\u201d Dust is as it is written, \u201cHe makes them like dust with his sword,\u201d which is Malchut, as it is written, \u201cA sword for the Lord, filled with blood.\u201d Malchut is called a \u201csword for the Lord.\u201d Dust is the place from which Adam HaRishon was created, as it is written, \u201cAnd the Lord God created the man dust from the earth.\u201d Several hosts emerge from that dust, several camps, several degrees, several litigants, several arrows, several sling stones, several lances and swords and arms are found from that dust. \u201cWho counts\u201d is as it is written, \u201cIs there a number to His armies\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Malchut in general is called a \u201csword to the Lord.\u201d There are ten Sefirot in her, and Malchut of Malchut is called \u201cdust.\u201d It is written about her, \u201cHe makes them like dust with his sword,\u201d that he awakens by the sword, Malchut of Malchut in her, who is called \u201cdust.\u201d From that dust emerged Adam HaRishon. However, he was sweetened in Bina, as it is written, \u201cDust from the earth.\u201d Dust is Malchut of Malchut, and each is Bina of Malchut since Bina is called the \u201cland of Edom. Also, all of reality emerged from this dust that is sweetened in Bina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 469. \u201cAnd number the fourth\u200e part of Israel.\u201d The fourth part of Israel is the Hey of HaVaYaH, since Israel, ZA, has the four letters HaVaYaH, of which Malchut is the fourth letter. This is why she is called \u201cthe fourth part of Israel.\u201d It is the same matter as with the dust of Jacob, who is also Malchut. However, dust is Malchut of Jacob, and the fourth part is the Malchut of Israel. The fourth part of Israel means the lying down of Israel, the bed of Israel, Malchut, called \u201cbed,\u201d as it is written, \u201cSolomon\u2019s bed,\u201d Malchut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A fourth part is like the fourth of Israel from below, meaning Malchut that is from ZA, who is called Israel, of whom she is a fourth, called \u201cfourth\u201d according to the Sefirot. This means that David, Malchut, is the fourth leg of the throne, since HGT of ZA are the three legs of the throne, which is Bina, and Malchut is their fourth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 470. \u201cWho can count the dust of Jacob.\u201d All those who emerge from Malchut, who is called dust, are regarded as dust. \u201cAnd number the fourth part of Israel,\u201d as it is written, \u201cIs there a number to His armies?\u201d This verse clarifies the fourth part of Israel and not the dust of Jacob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWho can count the dust of Jacob\u201d are the commandments that apply to the dust, meaning in sowing, in planting, and in harvesting. \u201cAnd count the fourth part of Israel\u201d are the commandments concerning animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 471. \u201cAnd he took up his oracle and said.\u201d He was raising his voice to that speaker, Malchut, who is called \u201cthus.\u201d This is \u201cAnd he took up his oracle,\u201d meaning Balaam raised his voice and said, \u201cIt is that \u2018thus,\u2019 she said,\u201d as it is written, \u201cand thus shall you speak,\u201d that Malchut, who is called \u201cthus,\u201d shall speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 472. Since Balaam saw that in all his spells and with all that gift, meaning the offerings he sacrificed, he could not uproot that \u201cthus,\u201d as it is written, \u201cwhile I meet the Lord,\u201d that he said, \u201cI will uproot that \u2018thus.\u2019\u201d The Creator told him, \u201cWicked one, you contemplate uprooting her; I will uproot you from your lineage,\u201d meaning He will uproot him from the root. It is written, \u201cAnd God met Balaam,\u201d from the words, \u201cThe ravens of the valley will pick it out,\u201d that He uprooted him from his degree. Afterwards, since he could not, he reiterated and said, \u201cHe has blessed, and I cannot reverse her.\u201d Should he not have said \u201creverse him\u201d? However, reverse her, the one of whom it is written, \u201cthus,\u201d \u201cand thus shall you speak,\u201d Malchut, of whom he said, \u201cI cannot reverse her from Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 473. Balaam said, \u201cI wanted to enter them in two degrees. I wanted to enter them from the degree of Jacob, but I could not. I wanted to enter them from another side, from the degree of Israel, but I could not, since this name or that, does not become tied to the evil kinds, as it is written, \u2018He has not observed iniquity in Jacob, nor has He seen wickedness in Israel.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 474. They are two degrees, a serpent and a charm. Opposite them, there are two shells, labor and iniquity. Balaam said, \u201cIndeed, I have found the opposite of Jacob and Israel, since iniquity is the shell opposite Jacob, who is connected with a spell called \u201cserpent.\u201d Labor is the shell opposite Israel, which is connected with a charm. Since he saw that he could not, he said, \u201cIndeed, He has not observed iniquity in Jacob, nor has He seen wickedness in Israel,\u201d since the Lord his God is with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 475. If you say about these labor and iniquity, \u201cI cannot,\u201d and about the charm and the serpent, \u201cI can,\u201d it is written, \u201cFor there is no serpent [also divination] in Jacob, and no spell in Israel.\u201d Moreover, all the hosts of above, and all the camps, do not know and do not observe the conducts of the upper king until they ask these two degrees, Jacob and Israel. And what do they say? \u201cWhat has God wrought?\u201d \u201cThus,\u201d Malchut, said all those words, and he, Balaam, only raised his voice against her, but he did not know what it is, and only his own voice was heard from him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 476. \u201cBehold, a people rises like a lioness, and lifts itself up like a lion.\u201d What nation is as mighty as Israel? When the morning shines, it rises and grows stronger like a lion to the work of his master, with several songs and praises. They engage in Torah all day, and at night, as it is written, \u201cIt shall not lie down until it devours the prey.\u201d When a person wants to lie in his bed, he sanctifies the upper name and crowns Him above and below. Several litigants connect before them at the time when they open their mouths by their beds during the Hear O Israel [reading], and ask for mercy from the holy King, with several verses of mercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 477. \u201cBehold, a people rises like a lioness.\u201d This nation is destined to rise over all the idol-worshiping nations like a mighty strong lion that throws himself on them. The way of all the lions is to lie on their prey. However, with it, it is written, \u201cIt shall not lie down until it devours the prey.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 478. \u201cBehold, a people rises like a lioness,\u201d to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings before the King on the altar. When the offering was being burnt on the altar, they saw a figure of a lion there, that was lying on that offering and eating it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 479. It was Uriel, the high angel, and they saw him in the shape of a strong lion lying on the altar and eating the offerings. When Israel were not so worthy, they would see the shape of an insolent dog lying on it. Then Israel would know that they need repentance and would repent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt shall not lie down until it devours the prey\u201d are the night offerings, such as burnt offerings. \u201cAnd drinks the blood of the slain,\u201d that the Creator makes their wars with their enemies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 480. What is \u201cshall not lie down\u201d? Each night, when a person does as his master\u2019s command, he does not lie on his bed before he kills 1,125 of these evil kinds that are with him. One thousand are from the left side, as it is written, \u201cA thousand may fall at your side,\u201d as it is written, \u201cLet the pious be joyful in glory; let them sing aloud on their beds. May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a double-edged sword in their hands, to execute vengeance on the nations,\u201d as it is written, \u201cIt shall not lie down until it devours the prey.\u201d This is the meaning of the words, \u201cto execute the judgment on them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 481. Israel were blessed three times, corresponding to the three times he struck his mare and loaded her with his spells. Corresponding to it, Israel were blessed that Israel would rise three times a year to be seen before the holy King.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 482. \u201cAnd Balaam saw that it was good in the eyes of the Lord to bless Israel, and he did not go as on other times, to look for omens.\u201d What is \u201cto look for omens\u201d? These first two times, he went with all his spells and wanted to curse Israel. Since he saw the Creator\u2019s will, who said \u201cReturn to Balak, since My children do not need your words, another word is destined for them from this \u2018thus,\u201d as it is written, \u2018Thus shall you speak.\u2019 \u2018Thus shall you speak,\u2019 and not you. \u2018Thus shall you speak,\u2019 who rules over all the rulers, sorcerers, charmers, and evil kinds so they cannot harm My children,\u201d so he wanted to look at them with an evil eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 483. When that wicked one looked at Israel, he looked at those two degrees, Jacob and Israel, to harm them with his spells, this one or that one. Because of it, in each and every blessing, Jacob and Israel were blessed. \u201cAnd Balaam saw that it was good.\u201d By what did he see? He saw that when the king\u2019s face was shining, the evil kinds did not persist, and all the spells and all the charms did not help with their spells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 484. It is written about those two times, \u201cAnd God met.\u201d \u201cAnd God met Balaam.\u201d It is also written, \u201cThus shall you speak.\u201d And now, since he saw that no anger was found and his spells did not help, then \u201che did not go as on other times, to look for omens.\u201d Since he separated and removed himself from his spells, he began a different awakening\u2014to praise Israel. The awakening here is an awakening of a spirit from the left side, under which his kinds and spells are tied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 485. We learn that even on the third time, the holy spirit did not rest on him. So why it is written, \u201cAnd the spirit of God was upon him,\u201d and in all those other times, it is not written like that? It is written, \u201cHe who has a kind eye will be blessed.\u201d Do not read it as \u201cwill be blessed\u201d but as \u201cwill bless.\u201d Balaam had an evil eye; there was no one in the world with an evil eye like his, and any place he looked with his eyes would become spoiled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 486. This is why they said that anyone who takes his son through the market and fears the evil eye should cover his head with a kerchief so the evil eye cannot control him. Here, too, since Balaam saw that he could not harm Israel with his spells and charms, he wanted to look at them with the evil eye, since any place he looked with his evil eyes would be spoiled. What was his wish against Israel? It is written, \u201cHe set his face toward the desert,\u201d turning his face toward the calf that Israel had made in the desert so he would have a side of help in harming them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 487. \u201cAnd Balaam raised his eyes and saw Israel,\u201d for he wanted to look at them with the evil eye. At that time, had the Creator not put the cure first, he would destroy them by the look of his eyes. The healing that the Creator gave to Israel at that time is as it is written, \u201cAnd the spirit of God was upon him.\u201d \u201cUpon him\u201d is written about Israel, that the Creator spread over Israel the spirit of God like a person spreading a kerchief on the child\u2019s head so his eyes do not control him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 488. At that time, he started and said, \u201cHow good are your tents, Jacob, your dwelling places, Israel.\u201d Anyone who wants to look with the evil eye, cannot unless he praises and cherishes the thing he wants to curse with the evil eye. And what is his way? He says \u201cHow good is this,\u201d \u201cHow handsome is that,\u201d so that the evil eye would control him. Here, too, he said, \u201cHow good are your tents Jacob,\u201d how handsome they are, how beautiful they are, how many beautiful plantings were planted from them, similar to those handsome plantings that the Creator planted in the Garden of Eden. May those plantings be in these dwelling places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 489. It is like a person who had beautiful, fine-looking hands. Another person, with an evil eye, went by and looked at those hands. He held them and began to praise how beautiful they are, how handsome, look at the fingers\u2014derived from the upper beauty. Afterwards, he said, \u201cMay these hands be among gems, and in crimson clothes of honor, and may they be in his home to use them, and may they be concealed in his box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 490. Therefore, Balaam began to praise, \u201cHow good are your tents, Jacob, your dwelling places, Israel,\u201d see how beautiful, how handsome. Afterwards, he said, \u201cWater shall flow from his buckets,\u201d that no planting as beautiful as this shall be found, a planting of the Torah, besides these dwelling places. \u201cAnd his seed shall be in many waters,\u201d meaning between the shells, which are called \u201cmany great waters,\u201d meaning that the holy spirit will not grow and multiply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 491. The Creator told him, \u201cWicked one, your eyes cannot harm, since there is the spreading of the holy spirit on them.\u201d Then he said, \u201cGod brings him out of Egypt,\u201d which means that all the people in the world will not be able to harm them, since a high and superior force is holding them, which is \u201cGod brings him out from Egypt.\u201d Moreover, \u201c[He] is for him like the horns of an oryx,\u201d that no person will be able to stretch his hand on him because of his height. And since he is in high elevation, \u201che shall eat up his enemy nations,\u201d and there is no one who can harm them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 492. Even when he is not upright, they will not be able to overcome him, as it is written, \u201cHe crouched; he lies down like a lion and like a lioness.\u201d Also, he is not afraid since he is as strong as a lion and as a lioness even when he is in exile among the nations, and crouches and lies down among them. He will be as a lion in the laws of Torah and in the ways of Torah. 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