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99) \u201cHow good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together, as well.\u201d Happy are Israel, for the Creator did not hand them over to a minister or to a messenger. Rather, Israel grip to Him and He to them. For their love, the Creator calls them, \u201cservants,\u201d as it is written, \u201cFor unto Me the children of Israel are servants; they are My servants.\u201d Afterwards He calls them \u201csons,\u201d as it is written, \u201cYou are the children of the Lord your God.\u201d After that He calls them \u201cbrothers,\u201d as it is written, \u201cMy brothers and my friends.\u201d And because He called them \u201cbrothers,\u201d He wished to place His Divinity in them and He will not stray from them. Then it is written, \u201cHow good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together, as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

100a) \u201cHow good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together, as well\u201d is as it is written, \u201cAnd if a man shall take his sister … and see her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness: it is a shameful thing.\u201d The \u201cman\u201d is the Creator. \u201cShall take his sister\u201d refers to the assembly of Israel. Why is this so? Because \u201cIt is a shameful thing.\u201d Hence, How good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together, as well,\u201d meaning the Creator, as well as the assembly of Israel. \u201cAs well\u201d includes Israel below, for when the assembly of Israel is in unity, in Zivug<\/em> Panim<\/em> be<\/em> Panim<\/em> [face-to-face] with the Creator, Israel below are joyfully present in the Creator. This is why it writes, \u201cTogether, as well.\u201d \u201cTogether, as well\u201d comes to join the Tzadik<\/em>, meaning Yesod<\/em>, with the assembly of Israel, who are one Zivug<\/em>. This is why it says, \u201cTogether, as well,\u201d since Yachad<\/em> [together] comes from the word, Echad<\/em> [one].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are two states in Malchut<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. When\u00a0ZA<\/em>\u00a0elevates her from his\u00a0Chazeh<\/em>\u00a0and above, clothes the left line of\u00a0Bina<\/em>, and extends\u00a0Hochma<\/em>, while\u00a0ZA<\/em>\u00a0himself clothes the right line of\u00a0Bina<\/em>\u00a0and extends\u00a0Hassadim<\/em>. This was\u00a0Malchut\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0state on the fourth day of creation. At that time,\u00a0ZA<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Malchut<\/em>\u00a0were called \u201cthe two great lights,\u201d since she was as big as\u00a0ZA<\/em>. They are also regarded as brother and sister because they are both at the same degree, one is right and the other is left. In this discernment, they are also regarded as adhered to one another because all the discernments on a single degree are regarded as adhered to one another, where adhering means equivalence. However, at that time\u00a0Malchut<\/em>\u00a0was in darkness and posterior, since left without right bestows\u00a0Hochma<\/em>\u00a0without\u00a0Hassadim<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Hochma<\/em>\u00a0without\u00a0Hassadim<\/em>\u00a0cannot shine.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. The first state continues until the Creator, the middle line, told her, \u201cGo and diminish yourself.\u201d This means that\u00a0ZA<\/em>, the middle line, will evoke the\u00a0Zivug<\/em>\u00a0of the light of\u00a0Hassadim<\/em>\u00a0over his\u00a0Masach de<\/em>\u00a0Hirik<\/em>, which diminishes the left line. Then\u00a0Malchut<\/em>\u00a0had nothing more to cling to and descended from there. She returned and was built anew by\u00a0AVI<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0ZA<\/em>\u00a0from the\u00a0Chazeh<\/em>\u00a0downwards, until she became worthy of the second state\u2014the\u00a0Zivug<\/em>\u00a0of\u00a0ZA<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Malchut PBP<\/em>\u00a0[Panim<\/em>\u00a0be<\/em>\u00a0Panim<\/em>]. This decline of\u00a0Malchut<\/em>\u00a0from the\u00a0Chazeh<\/em>\u00a0and above\u2014the degree of\u00a0ZA<\/em>\u2014into a\u00a0Nukva<\/em>\u00a0that is separated from him, from the\u00a0Chazeh<\/em>\u00a0downwards, is called \u201csawing off,\u201d since the\u00a0Dvekut<\/em>\u00a0[adhesion] that\u00a0Malchut<\/em>\u00a0had with\u00a0ZA<\/em>\u00a0because they were at the same degree has already been cut off, for she divided from\u00a0ZA<\/em>\u00a0into a separate degree of her own.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    There is greater merit in the first state than in the second state. This is because in the first state she received Hochma<\/em> from the left line of Bina<\/em>. And although the Hochma<\/em> did not shine in her due to lack of Hassadim<\/em>, it is still a great degree. But there is merit to the second state because even though she was diminished and could no longer receive Hochma<\/em> from the left line of Bina<\/em>, but received VAK<\/em> de<\/em> Hochma<\/em> that are clothed in Hassadim<\/em> from ZA<\/em>, they still shine in her Panim<\/em> be<\/em> Panim<\/em>. However, in the first state she was in the dark because the great Hochma<\/em> in her was devoid of Hassadim<\/em> and she could not shine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    And yet, all this relates only to the illumination of Malchut<\/em> to the lower ones, and not at all with respect to herself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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