536) Rabbi Yosi and Rabbi Hiya were walking along the way and a donkey driver was leading the donkeys behind them. Rabbi Yosi said to Rabbi Hiya, \u201cWe should engage and exert in words of Torah because the Creator is walking ahead of us, hence it is time to make corrections for Him, so He will be with us on this way.\u201d A donkey driver stings the donkeys with a piece of wood to make them walk faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
537) Rabbi Hiya started and said, \u201cIt is time to do for the Lord; they have broken Your law.\u201d Anytime when the Torah exists in the world and people engage in it, the Creator is seemingly happy with the work of His hands, there is joy in all the worlds, and heaven and earth maintain their existence. Moreover, the Creator gathers His entire household and tells them, \u201cSee the holy people that I have in the land, thanks to them, the Torah is crowned. See the work of My hands, of whom you said, \u2018What is man, that I should remember him?\u2019\u201d And they, when they see their Master\u2019s joy with His people, they promptly start and say, \u201cAnd who is as Your people, as Israel, one nation in the land.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
538) And when Israel idle away from the Torah, His might seemingly fades, as it is written, \u201cYou neglected the Rock who begot you,\u201d and then it is written, \u201cAnd all the host of heaven stand.\u201d Hence, it is time to do for the Lord. Those righteous that remained should muster their strength and do good deeds, to strengthen the Creator with the righteous and with His camps and armies, since they have broken Your law and the people of the world do not engage in it properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
539) The donkey driver, who was leading the donkeys behind them, said to them, \u201cPlease, I would like to know one question.\u201d Rabbi Yosi replied, \u201cCertainly, the road is set before us; ask your question.\u201d He said, \u201cHad this verse said, \u2018It should be done\u2019 or \u2018It was done,\u2019 I would say so. But what is \u2018Time to do\u2019? Also, it is written, \u2018To do for the Lord.\u2019 It should have said, \u2018Before the Lord.\u2019 What is \u2018To do for the Lord\u2019?\u201d Rabbi Yosi said, \u201cThe road is set before us in several ways: One, that we were two and now we are three, for the Shechina has been included with us. One, that I thought that you were as a dry tree, while you are as fresh as an olive. And one, that you asked very well, and since you have begun the matter, do speak.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
540) \u201c\u2018Time to do for the Lord,\u2019 since there is a time and there is a time\u2014a time to love and a time to hate. A time above, faith, Malchut, is called \u2018Time.\u2019 This is called \u2018A time of good will,\u2019 and it means that man must always love the Creator, as it is written, \u2018And you shall love the Lord your God.\u2019 In that regard, a time to love is a time when one must love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
541) \u201cAnd there is another time, which is another god, which one must hate and not follow him with his heart. Hence, a time to hate. And this is why it is written, \u2018Tell your brother Aaron that he shall not enter at any time into the holy place.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
542) \u201cWhen Israel engage in Torah and in the Mitzvot of the Torah\u2014a time\u2014the holy faith, Malchut, is corrected in her corrections and is fully adorned as it should be. And when Israel do not engage in Torah, at that time it is seemingly not corrected and incomplete, and not in the light. Then it is time to do for the Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
543) \u201cWhat is, \u2018Time to do for the Lord\u2019? It is written, \u2018That God has created to do.\u2019 What is \u2018To do\u2019? It means that bodies of demons remained, which were not done because the day has been sanctified, and they remained to do because they are spirits without bodies. Here, too, it is time to do, the time remained without correction and without wholeness because they have broken Your law, for Israel have been idling away from words of Torah, for that time is so, either ascending or descending for Israel. If they engage in Torah, it ascends. If they idle away from the Torah, it descends.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
544) Rabbi Yosi said, \u201cIt is indeed beneath you to lead the donkeys behind us. Happy is this road, for we have been rewarded with hearing this. Happy is the generation that Rabbi Shimon is in it, when wisdom is found even among the mountains.\u201d Rabbi Yosi and Rabbi Hiya descended from their donkeys and the three of them walked along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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