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70) \u201cIf his offering is a burnt offering.\u201d It is written, \u201cFor My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways.\u201d \u201cFor My thoughts are not …\u201d it writes \u201cMy thought,\u201d without a Vav<\/em> [in Hebrew, which would make it plural]. The thought of the Creator, which is the Sefira<\/em> Hochma<\/em>, is superior and the Rosh<\/em> [head] of everything. This is so because Partzuf ZA<\/em> begins from Hochma<\/em> and its Keter<\/em> is from Ima<\/em>. From that thought, ways and paths extend to devise the Holy Name and to correct in its proper corrections. The potion of the Garden of Eden extends from that thought to water everything, and the upper and lower exist from that thought. Also, the written Torah, ZA<\/em>, and the oral Torah, Malchut<\/em>, were emanated from that thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

71) Man\u2019s thought is the beginning of everything. Ways and paths extend from that thought to divert one\u2019s ways in this world and in the next world, and from that thought emerges the filth of the evil inclination to harm oneself and all others. Also, transgressions, sins, and evil doing come from that thought, as well as idolatry, incest, and bloodshed. It is written about that, \u201cFor My thoughts are not your thoughts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

72) And because the thought is the beginning of everything, it writes in the beginning, \u201cIf his offering is a burnt offering,\u201d since the offering atones for the thought. And it writes, \u201cFrom the cattle,\u201d but not all cattle, only a male bull and not a cow, female. \u201cA male without blemish, he shall bring it,\u201d a male and not a female, since the male is considered higher than the female. It is so also with the flock: not a female from the sheep and from the goats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

73) Everything that comes to be a burnt offering is male and not female, since the burnt offering rises [\u201crises\u201d is spelt the same as offering in Hebrew] over the heart, meaning on the thought, which is above the heart. It is known that the one who stands over the heart is the thought, since the thought, which is Hochma<\/em> [wisdom], is regarded as male and the heart as female, Bina<\/em> [understanding]\u2014the heart understands\u2014for she receives from Hochma<\/em>. This is why a burnt offering rises up and they are all males, and this is why the writing begins with a burnt offering more than all other offerings, since the thought is the beginning of everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

74) Thus, in the place of the thought above, he should have offered the burnt offering to the Sefira<\/em> Hochma<\/em>. Why is it offered to Yesod<\/em> below? The beginning of everything is the thought, the Sefira<\/em> Hochma<\/em>, the beginning of ZA<\/em>, and the end of the thought is a place called \u201cmorning.\u201d This is the end of the perfuming body, the Nukva<\/em>, Yesod<\/em>, Sium<\/em> de<\/em> ZA<\/em>, which is called a Guf<\/em> [body].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly, man\u2019s thought is the beginning of everything. The end of that thought is when the act that he contemplated is done; then the thought is concluded. When is that? In the morning, as it is written, \u201cWoe to those who scheme iniquity, who work out evil.\u201d When? \u201cOn their beds. When morning comes, they do it.\u201d The morning light implies Yesod<\/em>, hence the thought in the burnt offering rises to the place of thought, which is Hochma<\/em>, and the action of the offering approaches the conclusion of the thought, which is Yesod<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

70) \u201cIf his offering is a burnt offering.\u201d It is written, \u201cFor My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are 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