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377) \u201cDo not uncover the nakedness of your father\u2019s brother.\u201d This is Israel below, for Israel are the brothers of ZA<\/em>, who is your father. Your mother\u2019s sister is Jerusalem of below, who is the sister of Malchut<\/em> of above, who is your mother. It is so because by these iniquities the nakedness of Israel will be revealed, meaning that Israel will be exiled among the nations, and the nakedness of Jerusalem will be revealed, meaning that Jerusalem below will be ruined. For this comes the love of the Creator, who called Israel, \u201cbrothers,\u201d as it is written, \u201cFor the sake of My brothers and My friends, I will speak, \u2018May peace be in you.\u2019\u201d And this is why the text says about them, \u201cThe nakedness of your father\u2019s brother.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

378) If it is written, \u201cMy brothers,\u201d why is it also written, \u201cMy friends\u201d? Something that never stops is called \u201cMy friends,\u201d as it is written, \u201cYour friend and your father\u2019s friend do not forsake.\u201d Upper Ima<\/em>, Bina<\/em>, is called \u201cwife\u201d because the father\u2019s love never stops from her. And lower Ima<\/em>, Malchut<\/em>, is called \u201cbride\u201d and is called \u201csister,\u201d as it is written, \u201cWe have a little sister,\u201d Malchut<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

379) \u201cThe nakedness of your sister, your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether born at home or born outside, their nakedness you shall not uncover.\u201d Because it is written, \u201cYour father\u2019s daughter,\u201d what is \u201cOr your mother\u2019s daughter?\u201d That is, since AVI<\/em> never part, if Malchut<\/em> is the daughter of your father, who is upper Abba<\/em>, is she not necessarily the daughter of your mother, too, who is upper Ima<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if she comes from the side of Abba<\/em>, that the side of Abba<\/em> governs her, Malchut<\/em> is called Hochma<\/em>. If from the side of Ima<\/em>, and the side of Ima<\/em> governs her, she is called Bina<\/em>. And still she is from AVI<\/em> together, since the letter Yod<\/em>, Abba<\/em>, never parts from the letter Hey<\/em>, Ima<\/em>. It is written, \u201cborn at home,\u201d when she is from the side of Abba<\/em>, or \u201cborn outside,\u201d when she is from the side of Ima<\/em>, since Ima<\/em> is regarded as the externality of Abba<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

380) \u201cIn wisdom shall a house be built.\u201d A house that is built with wisdom is a river that goes out of Eden, Bina<\/em>. \u201cBorn at home\u201d is Malchut<\/em>, who was born from Bina<\/em>, who is a house for wisdom. Or \u201cborn outside,\u201d when Malchut<\/em> exits the Vav<\/em>, ZA<\/em>. As Adam, ZA<\/em>, said about Eve, Malchut<\/em>, \u201cA bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.\u201d And it is written, \u201cAnd He took one of his ribs, and closed up the place with flesh instead.\u201d Thus, Malchut<\/em> emerges from ZA<\/em>. This is \u201cborn outside,\u201d from the place where ZA<\/em> is found, who is outside of Ima<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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