491) It is written, \u201cFor the Leader on Shushan Edut; Michtam of David to teach.\u201d David was shown a sign in the lily\u2014that he would win the war, when he sent Yoav [Joab] to Aram Naharaim and to Aram Tzova to wage war against them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moses said, \u201cShushan Edut,\u201d the Edut<\/em> [testimony] of the Shechina<\/em>, who is called \u201cShushan Edut\u201d because it is a testimony standing over us and testifying about us before the king, and high and holy degrees are with it, and it is holy help for us to praise in praises. This is why it is called \u201cShushan Edut.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is called \u201cShushan Edut,\u201d meaning that the Shechina<\/em> is a testimony to Israel, who are her organs, and she is a soul upon them. She is help from heaven, as it is written about her, \u201cAnd you will hear the heaven.\u201d She is holy assistance of which it is said, \u201cIt is an opening that supports you,\u201d since the Shechina<\/em> is called Tania<\/em> [Aramaic: opening].<\/p>\n\n\n\n 492) It is written, \u201cYour dwelling place is strong, and set your nest in the rock.\u201d Eitan<\/em> [strong] has the letters of Tania<\/em>, which are Mishnah and Braita, since in the Mishnah and in the Braita it is the nest of the high eagle of the Shechina<\/em>. It is written about her, \u201cLike an eagle that stirs up its nest, that hovers over its nestlings,\u201d who are those who study laws and rules, called \u201cher nestlings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Any word that comes out of the mouth of a Tania<\/em>, of one who studies the Mishnah, who elicits whether for HaVaYaH<\/em> or in the Torah or in a prayer, a blessing, or in any Mitzva<\/em>, it is written about him, \u201cWill spread his wings,\u201d meaning that eagle, who is speech. The Shechina<\/em> is called \u201cspeech,\u201d in whom there is HaVaYaH<\/em>, ZA<\/em>, voice. That eagle will spread its wings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 493) It is written, \u201cHe spreads His wings and takes them, He carries them on His pinions.\u201d \u201cHis pinions\u201d are that organ of the man on which he performs the Mitzva<\/em> of HaVaYaH<\/em>. It is called, \u201cthe organ of the Shechina<\/em>.\u201d For this reason, \u201cHe carries them on His pinions.\u201d \u201cCarries him\u201d is as it is written, \u201cThe Lord will lift up [Yissa<\/em> means both \u201ccarry\u201d and \u201craise\u201d] His face to you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 494) What is, \u201cAnd set your nest in the rock\u201d? David said about the Shechina<\/em>, \u201cThe Lord is my rock and my fortress.\u201d So is the Tanah, one who studies the Mishnah: there is a law in him that is as strong as a rock that a hammer cannot shatter with all the questions in the world. This is where the eagle, the Shechina<\/em>, nests. All the Tanaim<\/em> [sages\/teachers of the Mishnah] are called \u201cnests of the Shechina<\/em>.\u201d This is why it is written, \u201cIf you happen to come upon a bird’s nest.\u201d The Shechina<\/em> is called a \u201cbird,\u201d by chance, once, as a guest, and one who comes to a motel, who stays temporarily at a motel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 495) There are sages who study the Mishnah, who are a permanent abode to the Shechina<\/em> in their Mishnah, as it is written, \u201cAnd the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations.\u201d \u201cGenerations\u201d is written without a Vav<\/em> [in Hebrew], making it \u201cabode.\u201d There are teachers of the Mishnah whose teaching is their craft. The Shechina<\/em> does not move from them their whole lives, but they are the ones of whom it is written, \u201cIf you happen to come upon a bird’s nest.\u201d In them the Shechina<\/em> is incidental: at one time she is over them and with them, and another time she is not with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 496) At times when the Shechina<\/em> is with them, it is written, \u201cAnd the mother sitting on the nestlings on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the nestlings.\u201d But he does not let the mother go, meaning the Shechina<\/em>. And at times when she is not with them, it is written, \u201cYou shall certainly let the mother go,\u201d for he is not worthy of being with her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nestlings are the sages of the Mishnah. Eggs are sages of the Bible [Old Testament]. It is written about those who do not study regularly, \u201cYou shall certainly let the mother go.\u201d But for those who study regularly, it is written, \u201cYou shall not take the mother with the nestlings,\u201d but he does not let her go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are those who study laws who are akin to stars, as it is written, \u201cAnd those who lead the many to righteousness, as the stars forever and ever.\u201d But they are not as stars of which it is written, \u201cAnd all their hosts will wither.\u201d Rather, they are as those stars of the next world, who always stand, forever. 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