312. Rabbi Shimon, Rabbi Elazar, and Rabbi Abba were sitting. Rabbi Elazar said, \u201cIf it pleases my father, may he say a word about the work of the Merkava [structure\/chariot]?\u201d He said to him, \u201cBut we learned, \u2018And not in Merkava alone.\u2019\u201d He said to him, \u201cDoes my father mean that I should say a matter I had learned from him?\u201d Rabbi Shimon said to Rabbi Abba, \u201cYou alone will fix the table,\u201d meaning you will learn on your own, and Elazar will be with me. Rabbi Abba left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
313. Rabbi Elazar opened and said, \u201cNow it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the River Kvar, that the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.\u201d This verse, it is not said who said it, whether Ezekiel, since it is written afterwards, \u201cNow the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel the priest.\u201d That verse should have been written before it, since that text speaks of the permission that the Creator gave him to speak words of prophesy, and afterwards, it should have written, \u201cNow it came to pass in the thirtieth year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
314. However, Ezekiel said the verse, and he said all that he said and revealed all that he revealed with the Creator\u2019s permission. The friends elucidated this verse. However, this prophesy was when the Shechina [Divinity] went down to exile with Israel, and the upper glory, Bina, was sparkling to block the looking of that light called \u201cthe brightness of the Shechina,\u201d the brightness from which she is nourished, and Bina blocked it so it would not shine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The upper Shechina, Bina, departed from the children, ZA and Malchut, and does not shine for them, and permission was given to seventy other years, of the Kingdom of Babylon, to rule. These are seventy years in Malchut of the Sitra Achra, which correspond to the seventy years in Malchut of holiness, which are her seven Sefirot, where each of them comprised of ten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
315. In the meantime, a fire descended from above and encircled them. They heard the sounds of the camps of angels of above from within the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
316. \u201cNow it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month.\u201d \u201cOn the fourth\u201d is King David, Malchut, the fourth support of the upper throne, with those three upper supports HGT, which are thirty years, where each of the three consists of ten. The fourth support, Malchut, is with HGT, in one connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And because he is with them in one connection without separation, it is written, \u201con the fourth,\u201d since there is a second phase in Malchut, who is connected to Yesod, and then she is seventh and not fourth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the fifth day of the month\u201d are the degrees of below, the five Sefirot HGT NH of Malchut when she is below, seventh, connected to Yesod, which are the correction of the moon, Malchut, to bond with them, since she connects to Tifferet, to the fourth, as well as established under Yesod, in the seventh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
317. All those degrees have no contentment and light when the upper Shechina, Bina, departs from the children, ZA and Malchut, since during the exile, Bina departed from ZON, the heavens wore blackness, and their covering was a sackcloth, as it is written, \u201cI clothe the heavens with blackness, And I make sackcloth their covering.\u201d And then it is written, \u201cAnd I am in the exile,\u201d since the Shechina descended to the exile and the upper glory has been revealed on her, namely Bina, to support her, and the sun was darkened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
318. As we study this verse with sorrow in this time, the time of exile, on another time, when that light will shine and the thrones, Bina and Malchut, will be completed with light from one another, since the upper, holy throne, Bina, will shine in the fathers first, in HGT, and when they shine from the upper light, everything shines, when they bestow upon Malchut, and Malchut upon all the worlds, it is written, \u201cNow it came to pass in the thirtieth,\u201d which are HGT, that each of them consists of ten. \u201cNow it came to pass\u201d means \u201cbefore.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
319. \u201cLet there be light.\u201d It is not written \u201cand there was light,\u201d but \u201cLet there be light,\u201d meaning light that already was. Here, too, \u201cNow it came to pass in the thirtieth year.\u201d It is not written \u201cwas\u201d but \u201cis\u201d [in Hebrew] since it already was, as it is written, \u201con River Kvar,\u201d about the light that already was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn the fourth month\u201d is King David. He stands to shine on the fourteenth of the month, for the moon that shines on the fourteenth of the month is still not in its fullest. He is the fourth of the patriarchs, Malchut who is after HGT. \u201cOn the fifth day\u201d is king Solomon, the moon on the fifteenth of the month, which shines in full, since he completes the throne, Malchut, as it is written, \u201cAnd Solomon sat on the Lord\u2019s throne as king.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
320. Thus far, the light shone in the full wholeness. Henceforth, after king Solomon, who is the fifteenth of the month, the light begins to become covered, as it is written, \u201cAnd I am in the exile.\u201d \u201cI,\u201d Malchut, am approaching being dark. \u201cIn the exile,\u201d it is not written \u201cin exile\u201d indicating that she was approaching the exile, that she was growing darker until she was entirely darkened and the light was covered, like the moon, who, from the fifteenth of the month onward gradually becomes darker until she is completely darkened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
321. Why was the light covered? \u201cOn River Kvar,\u201d on the light that already was, and has now departed and was separated from her. And because the light that already was, separated from her, which is the first light, Hesed, the heavens were opened. Indeed, because the light became separated, the heavens were opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
322. In the beginning, there was one connection in one whole, when the right line was incorporated in the left line, and the left in the right, and the heavens\u2014ZA, which includes both of them\u2014were made of them. And since the right turned backwards, as it is written, \u201cHe has drawn back His right,\u201d and the left line remained without right, the heavens were indeed opened, opened from that complete connection that was in them at first, where left remained without right, and that place was covered with darkness, as it is written, \u201cI clothe the heavens with blackness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is so because the illumination of the left without right is darkness, since the river Kvar is missing from them, the first light, Hesed, which already was, and now, it is as though there is separation between right and left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
323. It is written, \u201cFor Abraham,\u201d who is Hesed, \u201cdid not know us.\u201d And since Abraham did not know us and does not shine for us, \u201cAnd Israel,\u201d ZA and the middle line, \u201cdoes not recognize us,\u201d since the heavens were open, the connection of right and left that was in heaven, in the middle line, was opened, and the connection of right and left is not present. This is why the light is lost, since it became dark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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