{"id":14230,"date":"2026-01-07T23:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=14230"},"modified":"2026-01-07T23:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:38:19","slug":"they-have-forsaken-me","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/they-have-forsaken-me\/","title":{"rendered":"They Have Forsaken Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>120. It is written, \u201cThey have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, to hewn themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water.\u201d \u201cThey have forsaken Me\u201d is the one who lies in the token of the holy inscription, which he admits into another authority, as it is written, \u201cand has married the daughter of a foreign god,\u201d which are called \u201cbroken cisterns,\u201d since nations that worship idols are called \u201cbroken cisterns.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>121. And that of Israel, who is Malchut, is called \u201ca well, a spring of living waters.\u201d This is the holy authority of the holy faith, Malchut, who is called a \u201cwell of springs from which clear water emerges and pours out,\u201d as it is written, \u201cand pour down from Lebanon.\u201d And also, \u201cand pour down from your well,\u201d and it is written, \u201cA fountain of gardens, a well of living waters.\u201d The Sitra Achra is called \u201cbroken cisterns that will hold no water.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>122. A river that is extended and comes out is Yesod, waters the whole garden, Malchut, and saturates every place until it fills that place of the garden, called a \u201cwell of living water,\u201d Yesod of Malchut, from which upper ones and lower ones are nourished, as it is written, \u201cand from there it parted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>123. All those sides of the left side are not watered from that fountain of springing water since they are from the side of the rest of the nations, and they are called \u201cbroken cisterns.\u201d One who lies in the holy inscription on that side adheres to broken cisterns that will hold no water, which do not enter there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But one who merits keeping it is rewarded with being watered by that spring of the brook in the next world, and is rewarded with that upper well being filled, and that blessings will be extended from above downward. Happy is he in this world and in the next world. It is written about that, \u201cAnd you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>124. Woe to one who lies in the holy inscription, for he lies in the upper name. Moreover, he causes that well, Malchut, not to be blessed, and it is declared about him that he gave a bad name to the virgin of Israel, Malchut, who always returns to being virgin. One who spreads libel against his first wife and gives her a bad name, it is as though he gives a bad name above, in Malchut, as it is written, \u201cfor he gave a bad name to the virgin of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>125. A virgin inherits seven blessings, since she is blessed with seven blessings because the virgin of Israel, Malchut, inherits seven blessings, seven Sefirot. This is why she is called \u201cBat Sheva\u201d [\u201ccontaining seven\u201d].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>126. Another woman, a widow or a divorced woman, who marries a man, from where are her blessings? From the blessings of Boaz and Rut, as it is written, \u201cAnd all the people at the gate said, and the elders were witnesses, \u2018May the Lord make the woman who comes into your home,\u2019\u201d since certainly, only a virgin is blessed with seven blessings, and there is no other woman in this matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>120. 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