414) \u201cAnd God said, \u2018Let there be light,\u2019 and there was light.\u201d This light was concealed, and it is set up for the righteous for the next world, as it is written, \u201cLight is sown for the righteous,\u201d indicating both the righteous above and the righteous below. That light never operated in the world except on the first day, and was then hidden and never used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
415) If it were completely hidden, the world would not exist for even a minute. Rather, it was concealed and sown as a seed that is sown and produces offspring, seeds, and fruits, and the world exists from it. There is not a day that does not come out from it in the world and sustains everything because with it, the Creator nourishes the world. Where there is engagement in Torah at night, a thread of that hidden light comes out and is extended over those who are engaging in Torah, as it is written, \u201cBy day the Lord will command His mercy, and in the night His song shall be with me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
416) On the day when the tabernacle below was established, it is written, \u201cMoses could not come to the tent of meeting,\u201d since the cloud was on him. A single thread would come out from the side of the first light in the joy of all, and would enter the tabernacle below. From that day forth, it was not revealed any longer, but it is operating in the world, renewing the work of creation each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
417) The work of the tabernacle is as the work of heaven and earth. Such a small measure of the upper secrets was revealed that it was impossible to taste in it to make it acceptable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
418) We shall raise these matters to Rabbi Shimon, who fixes sweet dishes, just as the ancient Atik\u2014the most hidden of all that are hidden\u2014fixes them. He fixes dishes in which there is no place for another to come and add salt to them, or that a person may eat and drink and complement his belly with all the delicacies in the world and leave some. In other words, upon hearing them, he understands sufficiently, and hence leaves of them and does not draw all that is in them, for each time he repeats them, he finds innovations in them that he did not sense before. The words, \u201cSo he set it before them and they ate and left some, according to the word of the Lord,\u201d come true in them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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