207) \u201cIf a soul should sin.\u201d It is written, \u201cUntil the day breathes and the shadows flee away.\u201d People should be careful with their sins so they will not sin before their Master, since a herald goes out daily and calls upon the people of the world, \u201cAwaken your hearts before the holy King, awaken to be careful with your sins. Awaken the holy soul that He has placed within you from the place of the upper holy One.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
208) When the Creator brings out the soul to lower her into people, He cautions her to keep His commandments with several promises and several punishments. Moreover, He takes her through 1,008 worlds to entertain and to observe the glory of those who engage in Torah in them. She stands before the King in adorned garments in the form of this world. With the high adorned garments, she looks at the King\u2019s glory daily and He crowns her with several crowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
209) When it is time to go down to the world, she makes her abode in the Garden of Eden for thirty days, to see the glory of the righteous\u2019 Master, and then she rises to her place above. Afterwards, she goes down to the world and the holy King crowns her with seven crowns until she comes and enters man\u2019s body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And when she is in man\u2019s body, sins in this world, and engages in darkness, the Torah is surprised at her and says, \u201cAnd what, all this glory and all this perfection, the high King completed the soul, and she sins before Him, \u201cIf a soul should sin.\u201d What does it mean that she should sin?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
210) \u201cIf a soul should sin.\u201d Let us return to the words, \u201cUntil the day breathes.\u201d This is an advice for that soul to be wary of her sin and to return so as to be purified. \u201cUntil the day breaths\u201d means until the day of this world breaths and that harsh day comes, when the King demands judgment, to bring her out of this world. \u201cAnd the shadows flee away\u201d means that when it is one\u2019s time to leave the world, the image of man is removed from him. It is written, meaning \u201cUntil the day breaths,\u201d until the day breaths that he should leave this world. \u201cAnd the shadows flee away\u201d means that the image has vanished and will return to its Master.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
211) While he exists, man has two images: one big and one small, as it is written, \u201cShadows,\u201d in plural form, whose least is two. When they are together, man exists. This is why it is written, \u201cAnd the shadows flee away,\u201d and at that time one should regard one\u2019s actions and correct them before his Master and confess to them because the Creator is called \u201cgracious\u201d and merciful and accepts those who repent before Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
212) This is the meaning of \u201cUntil the day breathes and the shadows flee away.\u201d Since these shadows are removed from him and he is chained in cuffs\u2014meaning he is going to die\u2014if he repents, it is repentance. Still, it is not as good as penance that he repents while he exists. King Solomon declares and says, \u201cRemember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
213) Hence, \u201cUntil the day breaths,\u201d a man should correct his actions because when his time comes to depart the world, the Creator wonders about him and says, \u201cIf one should sin after he hears a public adjuration to testify when he is a witness, whether he has seen or otherwise known, if he does not tell it, then he will bear his guilt.\u201d This is because \u201cI have sworn her in My name with an oath that she would not lie to me, and cautioned her when she came down to the world. And he witnessed how many times I cautioned her to keep My commandments.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hence, since man is a witness, when he returns before the King, \u201cWhether he has seen or otherwise known,\u201d meaning he saw these iniquities he had committed and looked upon them or knew for certain that he had broken his Master\u2019s commandment. If he does not say, if he does not confess to them before his Master when he leaves the world, \u201cThen he will bear his guilt.\u201d And when he bears his guilt how will they open a door for him, and how will he rise before his Master? This is why it is written, \u201cIf one should sin.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
214) \u201cAll this came upon us; yet we have not forgotten You, neither have we been false to Your covenant.\u201d It should have said, \u201cAll those came upon us\u201d and not \u201cAll this came upon us,\u201d which is in female form [in Hebrew]. However, all the Dinim<\/em> above that are included in \u201cThis\u201d came upon us because this is the Malchut<\/em>, which contains all the Dinim<\/em> above. This is why he said, \u201cThis\u201d in female form. \u201cYet we have not forgotten You\u201d means we did not forget the words of Your law. Anyone who forgets the words of Torah [also \u201claw\u201d] and does not wish to engage in it, it is as though he forgets the Creator, since the whole Torah is the name of the Creator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 207) \u201cIf a soul should sin.\u201d It is written, \u201cUntil the day breathes and the shadows flee away.\u201d People should […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":14654,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"topic":[28],"class_list":["post-14687","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-zohar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n