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The outer altar, Malchut, always craves the inner altar, Bina, and never stops singing songs and praises, as it is written, \u201cThe song of songs that is for Solomon,\u201d which are the songs and praises that Malchut sings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>47. As long as the candle burns on the wick and the wick is properly established, the light shines and is pure, and everyone enjoys it. And as long as the wick is absent and the oil is absent from the wick, the light departs and there is no one who knows anything of that light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>48. Thus, as long as Israel were set up and straightened like that wick, the light of above, the Shechina [Divinity], illuminated on them. It cited poems and was never still, like the light of the wick, which never ceases from drawing upward. And that poem is the most sublime of poems, the Holy of Holies. If the wick is absent, it is as though the light is absent, departs, and no one knows it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>49. Solomon screams and says, \u201cAnd remember your Creator in the days of your youth.\u201d Correct and straighten yourself up with commandments and good deeds in the days of your youth, when that light flames in the wick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>50. And regarding that light, while the wick is set up, he said before this light, \u201cAnd remember your Creator,\u201d awaken before the Creator with a song, and awaken the love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>45. \u201cThe bird also has found a house, and the sparrow has a nest where she may lay her young, 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