51. \u201cAnd remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near when you will say, \u2018I have no delight in them,\u2019\u201d when the moon, Malchut, wanes, evil rules, and her days are days that are undesirable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBefore the sun and the light, the moon and the stars are darkened, and clouds return after the rain.\u201d The sun is the river that comes out of Eden, Yesod, as it is written, \u201cAnd a river came out of Eden.\u201d It is written about it at the time of exile, \u201cAnd the river will be parched and dry,\u201d as it does not bestow upon the Malchut. Also, the light is the light that the Creator created and in which He was cloaked. It is His right, the light of Hesed, as it is written, \u201cHe turned his right backward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
52. And the moon is the sea, Malchut, which is filled by that river, Yesod, as it is written, \u201cThe waters from the sea will dry up, and the river will be parched and dry.\u201d And the stars are those twelve signs that are known to her, the twelve phases in Malchut, which receive from the twelve phases in ZA, HB TM, in each of which are three lines, and in which the clouds are the ministers of the nations of the world. After the rain, after the weeping of the ministering angels, as it is written, \u201cAngels of peace cry bitterly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
53. \u201cIn the day that the watchmen of the house tremble, and mighty men stoop, the grinding ones stand idle for they are few, and those who look through windows grow dim.\u201d \u201cThe watchmen of the house\u201d are the angels that guard the walls, as it is written, \u201cOn your walls, Jerusalem, I have set up guards.\u201d The mighty men are as it is written, \u201cSixty mighty men around it.\u201d These are the angels that extend from HGT NHY in Gevura, in each of which are ten, and they are sixty mighty men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe grinding ones stand idle\u201d refers to the angels who eat the offerings. \u201cFor they are few\u201d means that they diminished the wings of the animals. \u201cAnd those who look through windows grow dim\u201d are the eyes of the Creator, which roam through the whole earth; they are the seven eyes of the Creator, HGT NHY of illumination of Hochma, which are called \u201ceyes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
54. \u201cAnd the doors on the street are shut\u201d are the upper gates, all of which are shut, except for the gates of tears, which were not shut. \u201cAs the sound of the grinding mill is low\u201d is David\u2019s tabernacle, Malchut, which fell and was lowered to the dust. Her voice, where she would always sing the song of love, was lowered. \u201cAnd all the daughters of song will sing softly,\u201d meaning the angels who take turns in their watch over the song. Some of them sing at daytime, and some of them sing at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
55. \u201cThey fear a high place, too,\u201d as it is written, \u201cFor one higher than high watches,\u201d watches one from the other and receiving from one another in pleasantness and holiness. At the ruin of the Temple, a curse came forth, and a strong judgment is before him. For this reason the high one fears the high one and His judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
56. \u201cAnd terrors on the road.\u201d It is written, \u201cWho makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters.\u201d In that way the dew would come down from the head of the Creator, and every joy and bounty and good will would come by the same way. At the ruin of the Temple, shred over shred was piling up, and every fret, fear, and power of judgment was on that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
57. And the almond budded,\u201d as it is written, \u201cAnd the Lord kept the calamity in store\u201d [Shaked (almond) and Yishkod keeping\/delving) are spelt similarly]. It is also written, \u201cI see a rod of an almond tree,\u201d which means observing the performance of the judgment. The growth of an almond is twenty-one days. Also, from the seventeenth of Tamuz to the ninth of Av it is twenty-one days. And from the day when the almond flower buds, it does not bear fruit until the twenty-first day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
58. \u201cThe grasshopper drags itself,\u201d placing the suffering on the shoulder of the house of David\u2014that they will go out to exile. \u201cAnd the poor woman shall fail\u201d is the work of the Temple below. People cry out but they are not answered, since a man goes to his everlasting abode, meaning that the glory, Malchut, departs upward, and they cry out but there is none to watch over them because he has departed to his everlasting abode\u2014the place from which he had come out. This is why there are curse, evil, death, and bad events in the world, and they mourn and cry out each day, as it is written, \u201cFor death has come out through our window.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
59. \u201cBefore the silver thread is broken\u201d is a thread of Hesed extending from above downward. \u201cAnd the golden bowl is crushed\u201d is the illumination of Hochma that descends by that thread and clothes in Hesed. The cord\u2019s breaking means that the Hesed has been cancelled. The falling of the bowl means illumination of Hochma that cannot shine without clothing in Hesed. \u201cAnd the pitcher is broken at the fountain,\u201d meaning the Torah is forgotten in exile, the one who draws out, Minister Yofiel, does not draw from the fountain of Torah, and people are perplexed in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
60. \u201cAnd the wheel falls shattered into the pit.\u201d This means that the sabotaging angel has been given permission to sabotage them each day. \u201cAnd the dust shall return to the earth as it was,\u201d meaning that all the souls will end, and the world will end, and the dust, from which everything was made, will return to being as before, and the world will be ruined as it was. \u201cAnd the spirit shall return to the God, who gave it,\u201d meaning that the world will be renewed as before. It is written about that time, \u201cAnd many of they who sleep in the dust shall awaken.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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