53. This is why it is written, \u201cDraw me, we will run after you,\u201d since Joseph drew his brothers there, as it is written, \u201cI led them with cords of kindness, with bands of love.\u201d This is love, Hesed of ZA, which descended with them to dwell there, and they were delighted there with the upper king, ZA, who connected there with Joseph since he kept the holy covenant that was given for eight days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
54. This is why it is written, \u201cThey are right to love you.\u201d \u201cRight\u201d is as it is written, \u201cYou have established rightness; You have executed sentence and righteousness, which are ZA, which is sentence, and Malchut, which is righteousness. These are called \u201cstraight,\u201d as it is written, \u201che is righteous and straight.\u201d The male is incorporated with the female, for sentence, ZA, is incorporated with justice, Malchut, and the righteousness awakened in all the worlds. This is why \u201cthey are right to love you,\u201d indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
55. It is written, \u201cAnd Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons.\u201d It should have written \u201cIsrael\u201d; what is \u201cAnd Israel,\u201d with a Vav [and]? It is in order to incorporate the Shechina with him, who loves Joseph. This is why an excess Vav is written, such as this: and HaVaYaH, with a Vav [and], meaning ZA and his courthouse, Malchut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
56. All the tribes thanked him, for being loved by his father and his mother, and all the worlds blessed him with blessings, that he would settle in his place properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
57. How do we know that even his brothers loved him? Because it is written, \u201cTherefore, maidens loved you.\u201d Maidens are as it is written, \u201cstanding over twelve oxen,\u201d that the sea, Malchut, stands over twelve oxen, the twelve upper tribes in Malchut, from which there is the root of the twelve tribes of Israel. The tribes are called \u201cmaidens\u201d since they are in the world of the Nukva, Malchut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
58. After Joseph departed above, it is written, \u201cI am black and lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.\u201d Black, since the exile grew strong upon them. And yet lovely, since they did not mingle with the Egyptians. \u201cLike the tents of Kedar,\u201d I was blackened among them, for they sentenced me with several evil decrees. Nevertheless, I am as beautiful as the curtains of Solomon with good deeds since the tribes of Koh [the Lord] came to Egypt, and the tribes of Koh went out from there, meaning they did not change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
59. \u201cDo not look upon me because I am dark; it is \u201cbecause the sun has tanned me,\u201d since the sun, ZA, has departed. My mother\u2019s sons have caused me all this. These are the sons of Jacob who sold Joseph here, and they caused me and the Shechina that she was exiled here with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
60. It is written about that, \u201cAnd the children of Israel sighed from the work.\u201d When they saw the hard labor until they remembered the high covenant, and upper Ima, Bina, awakened with mercy on her children, as it is written, \u201cand their cry went up to the God,\u201d which is upper Ima, that all the freedom is in her hands, and she opened for Israel the upper doors, fifty gates, and took them out from there. The lower Ima, Malchut was filled with mercy on them, and Moses came out to the world, an appointee and a father, to shepherd Israel in the Torah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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