497) After all the craftsmen completed their work, the Creator said to them: \u201cI have one craft to make, in which we will all participate. Join together all of you to make in it each his share, and I will partake with you, to give it of My share.\u201d It is written about it, \u201cLet us make man in our image, after our own likeness.\u201d Sages explained that there is no man but Israel, as it is written, \u201cAnd you are My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, you are men.\u201d \u201cYou are men,\u201d and not the idol worshippers. This is why it is written, \u201cLet Israel be glad with his Maker.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
498) Rabbi Shimon said, \u201cThis must have been said by that sage who was hiding in the serpent\u2019s rock. It is written about him, \u201cYour dwelling place is strong, and set your nest in the rock.\u201d The three patriarchs are called \u201cstrong [or firm],\u201d and the fourth, Moses, is, \u201cYour dwelling place is strong,\u201d in which the law, the Shechina<\/em>, sits. It was said about her, \u201cA law for Moses out of Sinai,\u201d spreading over the 600,000 Israel and illuminating for them in the Torah when the sun is covered at night, and illuminates to all the stars and fortunes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So it was with Moses. Had he not hid in that rock, he would not have been able to illuminate to Israel. Also, there is no night but the exile. This is the meaning of what is written, \u201cWatchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?\u201d related to the exile. At that time Moses hides in the rock and appears during the day, at the time of redemption, as it is written about it, \u201cThe morning light arose.\u201d This is Abraham\u2019s morning, of which it is written, \u201cAnd you shall see the glory of the Lord,\u201d and as it is written, \u201cAs the Lord lives. Lie down until morning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 499) At that time Moses came out of that rock and appeared to Rabbi Shimon. He said, \u201cRabbi Shimon, what will I get out of hiding from you? After all, I did not leave a place into which I did not enter in order to hide from you, yet I did not find that I could hide in it from you. Therefore, I have no reason to hide from you any longer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 500) Once it was said, \u201cLet us make man in our image after our own likeness,\u201d why does it say afterward, \u201cAnd God created the man in His own image\u201d? When He asked the angels about the creation of man, some of them said, \u201cLet him be created,\u201d and some of them said, \u201cLet him not be created.\u201d The Creator created him, as it is written, \u201cAnd God created the man in His own image.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thus, He did not place in him one portion from the angels, and he was not made in their form, but in the form of the king, in His image and after His own likeness, only in the image of the likeness of His mold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 501) It is not that he was not included with all the angels and creations. Rather he was created out of all the angels and creations, and He enthroned him over all creations. But if He had given each his share to man, then at a time when He was angry at the man, each would take back his share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 502) But the Creator created him in His image. Malchut<\/em> is called \u201cimage,\u201d the image of everything, so that all the dwellers of BYA<\/em> are included in her. The Creator looked at her and created the world, and all the creations He had created in the world, and included in her the upper and the lower, without any separation. He included in her ten Sefirot<\/em>, and all the names, appellations, and HaVaYot<\/em> [pl. of HaVaYaH<\/em>], and the cause of everything, the master of everything. There is nothing in the upper ones and lower ones that is less than her, as she is the connection of everyone, and the wholeness of everyone, to keep in her the verse, \u201cAnd His kingdom rules over all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is so because there is nothing less of the cause of everything in even one of the upper and lower if she, Malchut<\/em>, is not included in him. She is called \u201cthe faith of Israel,\u201d and with respect to the cause of everything, it is written about her, \u201csince you did not see any form.\u201d But with respect to her mingling with the rest of creation, it is written about her, \u201cAnd the image of the Lord does he behold.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 503) There is no one who takes one\u2019s share from him, for not even one in the world placed his share in him, except the Creator, only the cause of everything, and on Him depends his punishment or reward, and not on an angel or a seraph, nor on any creation in the world. Because of it, one who connects the aim for the Creator with another thing is uprooted from the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 504) How fortunate is he who exerts in the last exile to know the Shechina<\/em>, to honor her in all the Mitzvot<\/em>, and to suffer for her several afflictions, as we learn, \u201cThe bride\u2019s reward is affliction and sorrow,\u201d that is, \u201cAccording to the sorrow, so is the reward,\u201d as it is written, \u201cAnd he laid in that place.\u201d Vayishkav<\/em> [and he laid] has the letters of VeYesh<\/em> [and there are] Chaf<\/em>–Bet<\/em> (22), for if there are twenty-two letters of the Torah there, meaning that he is complete in the Torah, the Shechina<\/em> lays with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 497) After all the craftsmen completed their work, the Creator said to them: \u201cI have one craft to make, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":14056,"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-14909","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-zohar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n