1. It is written, \u201cThe flower buds have appeared in the land, the time of pruning has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.\u201d One should make one\u2019s actions kosher [pure\/of merit] before his Creator and engage in His law [Torah] day and night, for the merit of the Torah is above all merits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. There are two great things in the Torah: life and wealth, as it is written, \u201clongevity on her right, wealth and honor on her left.\u201d These are three, since there is also honor. However, honor is included in wealth, since one who has wealth has honor. And by what will one be rewarded with all this? By the merit of the Torah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3. Each night, Matat, Minister of the faces, grips all the souls of those who engage in Torah Lishma [for Her sake] and shows them to the Creator, and the ministering angels wait, and become silent from saying psalms until the souls of the righteous are winged with them, and they will sing together to the Almighty God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4. \u201cThe flower buds have appeared in the land\u201d are those who engage in Torah Lishma. \u201cThe time of pruning has come,\u201d the time to sing to their maker together. \u201cAnd the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land\u201d is Matat, who comes to collect the souls of the righteous to sing to their maker each night, as it is written, \u201cLet the Hassidim [who have the quality of Hesed] rejoice in honor; let them sing on their beds.\u201d \u201cIn honor\u201d is Matat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5. All the souls of the righteous were decreed under the throne to lead the body like a father leading the son, since without the soul, the body cannot behave or know how to do its creator\u2019s will. The soul instructs and teaches a person, and educates him in every upright way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
6. When the Creator sends her from the place of holiness, He blesses her with seven blessings, as it is written, \u201cAnd the Lord said to Abram, \u201cGo forth from your land, and from your kindred, and from your father\u2019s house to the land that I will show you.\u201d Abram is the soul, which is called Av Ram [High Father], since she is a father to teach the body and is superior to it, since she comes from a high and sublime place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And what does He tell her? Go forth from your land, and from your kindred,\u201d meaning go from your abode, from your place, and from your pleasure. \u201cAnd from your father\u2019s house,\u201d the shining mirror, ZA, who is the father of the soul, \u201cto the land that I will show you\u201d\u2014an unknown body, a holy body, an upright body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
7. For this reason, \u201cAnd I will bless those who bless you,\u201d who deal with you with good qualities, upright qualities. Those who bless Me thanks to you and say, \u201cAs long as the soul is within me, I give thanks to You, Lord, My God.\u201d \u201cAnd I will curse those who curse you,\u201d who curse you and curse their own actions and ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
8. \u201cAnd Abram went as the Lord had said to him.\u201d Since she was blessed with these seven blessings, it is written, \u201cAnd Abram went.\u201d This is the soul, who is the father of the body. And high from the place of the high. When the Creator spoke to him to enter that body, when he was commanded to lead it and teach it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
9. Once she comes to enter the body, it is written, \u201cAnd Lot went with him,\u201d who is the evil inclination, which is ready to enter together with the soul when a person is born. How do we know that the evil inclination is called this? Because it is written, \u201cFor the inclination of a man\u2019s heart is evil from his youth,\u201d and this is Lot, who was cursed in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
10. The serpent who seduced Eve is the evil inclination, and we saw that it was cursed, as it is written, \u201cYou are more cursed than all the beast.\u201d For this reason, it is called Lot. When the soul comes to enter a body, promptly, \u201cAnd Lot went with him,\u201d for he is ready to enter with him and complain against the person and slander the soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
11. How do we know that it is an allegory about the soul? Because it is written afterwards, \u201cAnd Abram took Sarai his wife,\u201d which is the body, \u201cAnd Lot, his nephew,\u201d which is the evil inclination, who is his brother\u2019s son, shared and adhered to the body. \u201cAnd all their possessions that they have acquired\u201d are their deeds, \u201cAnd set out to go to the land of Canaan,\u201d meaning they are all adhered to walk in the vanities of the world, following their own greed and thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
12. \u201cAbram passed through the land up to the place of Shechem, up to Oak of Moreh.\u201d Wherever it is desired, the soul is with it. \u201cAnd the Canaanite was then in the land\u201d is the passion, which is adhered to the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
13. When the Creator visits their actions and takes the soul out of the body, the soul wants to rise up, as it is written, \u201cAnd he journeyed on from the Negev as far as Bethel.\u201d She wishes to return to the place of which it is written, \u201cwhere his tent was at the beginning.\u201d \u201cHis tent\u201d is written with Hey-Aleph, and then she stands, as it is written, \u2018between Bethel and Ai,\u2019 between going up and coming down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
14. If she is rewarded, she rises, as it is written, \u201cto the place of the altar that he had made there in the beginning,\u201d the place where Michael, the great minister, sacrifices the souls of the righteous. \u201cAnd Abram called there the name of the Lord.\u201d The soul praises and gives thanks in Jerusalem of above, for having been rewarded with that merit. If she is not rewarded, it is written, \u201cAnd Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negev.\u201d That is, she is repelled until she surrounds the whole world until she receives her punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
15. What do the righteous do? If he comes to be purified, even if the evil inclination that comes to complain about him, his soul assists him, as it is written, \u201cAnd Abram said to Lot,\u201d which is the soul saying to the evil inclination, \u201cLet there not be a quarrel between me and you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
16. What does the righteous do? He goes to the seminary, reads and learns, and slanders against the evil inclination, telling it, \u201cBut the whole earth is before you; please part ways from me.\u201d There are many in the world that you can overcome because they weaken their actions. \u201cIf you go left, I will go right.\u201d That is, if you want to turn me to the left, I will turn to the right, go to the right side so I do not turn my beech [tree] to the right and to the left. \u201cAnd if to the right, I will turn left.\u201d That is, although I may see that your advice is good, I will do the opposite of your will and passion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
17. What does the evil inclination do when it sees that its counsel was not heeded? It is written, \u201cSo Lot chose for himself all the Jordan Valley,\u201d for those wicked ones who do not slander with him. And for this way, \u201cAnd they parted from each other.\u201d At that time, it is written about the soul, \u201cAnd Abram was very heavy\u201d with every good and upright deed, with Torah and commandments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
18. The Creator protects the righteous so that people will not control them. The Creator also protected Abraham so that he and his wife would not be controlled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
19. The Shechina [Divinity] did not move from Sarah. At the night Pharaoh came to approach her, the angel came and struck him. Each time Sarah said \u201cStrike!\u201d It struck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
20. And Abraham was growing stronger with his master, and Sarah could not be controlled, as it is written, \u201cThe righteous are as bold as a lion.\u201d Here there was a test to Abraham, that Abraham did not doubt the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
21. This is why the Creator did not command him to go down to Egypt, as He had commanded Jacob. Rather, he went down on his own, so the people of the world would not be able to say that he told him this, and afterwards was sorry about his wife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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