79) If the souls are materialized and they are as clay pots, breaking them is their purification, as you say, \u201cBroken and purified.\u201d It is written, \u201cThe sacrifices of God are a broken spirit.\u201d But those who engage in the written Torah and the oral Torah, which are fire and water, and those who delve in the secrets of Torah, which is light\u2014of which it is written, \u201cAnd the teaching is light,\u201d\u2014those are purified by the Torah and do not need hell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
80) One who sees dates in a dream, his iniquities are over, as it is written, \u201cThe punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion.\u201d This is so because in the word Temarim<\/em> [dates], there are the letters TAM<\/em> [whole], which is Jacob\u2019s degree, as it is written, \u201cAnd Jacob was a TAM<\/em> [\u2018whole\u2019 or \u2018concluded\u2019] man.\u201d The iniquities are Marim<\/em> [bitter], hence the word Temarim<\/em> [Tam Marim<\/em>] implying that his iniquities are over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 81) \u201cAnd the Lord showed him a tree\u2026 and the waters were made sweet.\u201d One who exerts in Torah, the tree of life, the Creator forgives his iniquities, of which it was said, \u201cAnd they made their lives bitter with hard labor,\u201d and they return to being sweet, meaning his iniquities become as merits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 82) The days will come when he will live in them as in the days of the exodus from Egypt. \u201cAnd Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation.\u201d But in the last exile, there is no death, only poverty, for the poor are as good as dead, to keep in them, \u201cAnd I will leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall take refuge in the name of the Lord,\u201d and to keep in them, \u201cAnd the afflicted people You will save.\u201d And in the wealthy ones that will remain among them, the words, \u201cIdle, you are idle\u201d will come true, for they will be idle in the Torah, idle in being gracious to the attainers of the Torah, and strong men who wander from town to town will not redeem them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 83) They are idle with the weight of the tax, for if you say that they are not gracious because of the weight of the tax, then this is why it is written, \u201cLet the labor be heavier on the men, and let them work at it,\u201d so the weight of the tax will really be upon them. \u201cSo they will pay no heed to false words,\u201d meaning they were lying and saying that the tax is heavy on them and this is why they are not gracious. They also lie with their words when they say that they respect the tax that is burdening them, as it is written, \u201cThere is no straw given,\u201d which is the fortune of falsehood with which they misstated to the Creator. And because they did not heed Him and did not pity in the name of the Lord, \u201cStraw,\u201d which is fortune, \u201cNo straw given unto thy servants,\u201d and not because of the burden of the tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 84) And those who have money and keep it hidden inside, which is the interior, like the interior of the treasure and the interior of the ark, the words, \u201cyet you must deliver the quota of bricks,\u201d come true in them. This is money, which is bricks that will be in that generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 85) At that time there, \u201cHe made for them a statute and an ordinance,\u201d who are the authors of the Mishnah. They, too, are like that, \u201cAnd when they came to Marah,\u201d meaning that the oral Torah will once more be Marah<\/em> [bitter] for them, in great stress and in poverty, so the verse, \u201cAnd they made their lives bitter with hard labor\u201d will come true in them. This is a question. \u201cIn mortar,\u201d meaning by logical deduction; \u201cAnd bricks,\u201d meaning by scrutinizing laws; \u201cAnd at all kinds of labor in the field,\u201d in the Braita [laws that are not part of the Mishnah]. \u201cAll their labors which they rigorously imposed on them\u201d means Tishbi will answer questions and problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 86) And there the loyal shepherd will come true in you, \u201cThere He made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them.\u201d In the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which is prohibition and permission, and in those secrets that will be revealed through you, \u201cThe waters were made sweet.\u201d Like the salt that makes the meat sweet, they will be sweetened by the secrets that will be revealed through you. All those questions and the dispute of the bitter water in the oral Torah will return to being the sweet waters of the Torah. And your agonies will be sweet to you through these secrets that will be revealed by you. And all your troubles will come back to you like fleeting dreams. A dream [in Hebrew] has the letters of the word \u201csalt,\u201d reversed. As salt sweetens the meat, so agony sweetens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 87) And to the wicked, agony shall return, like the salt of Sodom, which blinds the eye, to keep in them, \u201cBut the eyes of the wicked shall fail.\u201d And in the wicked mixed multitude, the words, \u201cMany shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly\u201d will come true. \u201cMake themselves white\u201d are the authors of the Mishnah. \u201cAnd be refined\u201d are the holy seed, the rest of the people, as it is written, \u201cAnd will refine them as silver is refined.\u201d \u201cBut the wicked shall do wickedly\u201d are the mixed multitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 79) If the souls are materialized and they are as clay pots, breaking them is their purification, as you say, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":16950,"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-16978","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-zohar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n